Be careful, the way you cook rice may expose you to cancer

A new study by researchers from Queen's University and published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE revealed that preparing and cooking rice using a special percolator machine instead of a rice cooker would reduce the amount of harmful arsenic, which raises the risk of lung and bladder cancer, as well as causing damage. in the nervous system.

Since rice contains high levels of toxic substances, due to its growth in flood plains, rice crops absorb arsenic from the soil, making it contain ten times more than other nutrients.

Therefore, cooking rice using special pots does not help in removing arsenic from it, because everything that was removed from the arsenic by the water is absorbed from the rice again, but by putting the rice in the filter in the machines prepared for preparing coffee. Water will pass through it, removing approximately 85% of the arsenic.

According to the results of this study, researchers at the university are currently working on developing a machine similar to a coffee machine to be used in the rice cooking process. The researchers recommended the need to reduce the amount of rice intake to two or three times a week.