You're Eating Arsenic Laced Rice...Here's How To Avoid It! 

We’re Asian and we eat rice with almost everything. Yes of course you must rinse your rice very well. My grandparents ate rice every single day, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day and lived until their 90s. But of course, they never ate processed foods. My grandmother went to the open market every Wednesday, and bought only meats, fish and fresh vegetables and fruits. That’s it. What’s funny, is that my grandpa smoked a pipe and my grandma smoked cigarettes ( with the butt inside her mouth) common in their province. But I believe because they never stressed about life and were always calm and joyful, they lived long lives. Could be too of genetics! Who knows, but God bless them … I loved living with them for three years and seeing a different approach to food and life!

As asian we eat a lot of rice basmati rice i am glad my mom taught me the right way which is to wash rice not only 1 time but seven times rinse rinse until you see clear water than cook and enjoy rice with vegs or meat of your choice!:)

I wasn't taught to rinse or soak rice growing up, so I really appreciate receiving this information now.

I am just so floored by this... Never even knew nothing about Arsenic Laced Rice.....😳

I'm from Panama and we always washed our rice until the water came clear and i never questioned it, just thought it is what you do with rice. Some things you just do as part of culture or upbringing and never ask why, but now I know and recognize the wisdom of our elders. ❤️

I grew up in a farm in Kerala, India. We had rice paddy fields. I can eat rice for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, midnight, etc. We eat Kerala Kuthari rice (red/brown type of rice). I was shocked to find out people don’t wash their rice. We wash x 3 and also drain out the water once the rice is boiled and cooked. Gets the starch out, dirt out and whatever chemicals like Arsenic out.

i have eaten so many brands of rice and had stomach ache until i bought that brand from california. i had no idea why i felt better. but now i know why due to your video

I have been enjoying wild rice that is grown in the Sacramento, California area. I know exactly where it is grown because I would see them growing around where I grew up as a teenager.

No wonder there are so many cancer etc. we don’t know what to eat and who to trust anymore 🥴

Nobody is mentioning how BOLD this man is for standing in the middle of an open supermarket aisle to inform us about arsenic laced rice...GOAT!!!

Several years ago Walmart was selling rice laced with plastic. I cooked it and began to eat it and discovered the bits of plastics all thru the rice. Threw it out and stopped buying from Walmart.

I am from India & we use a rice variety called Matta Rice (red rice from Kerala) and everyone in our state washes the rice up to 5 times the way Bobby did before cooking it in a pressure cooker.

I LOVE that you mentioned Lundberg Farms! I have done work for them in the past and they are such a great family owned CA business who really cares about what they do! I’m sure they’ll appreciate the shout out! 🧡

Rose is so lucky, her diet and therefore her health, will be so pure.

Glad to come across this. Been seeing a lot of gardening videos where people save the water they rinsed their rice in to use in gardening, which seemed like a good idea until watching this and realizing I'd be adding arsenic to my soil.

I'm Vietnamese and when my cousin was a baby back in the late 70's early 80's our family were poor so whenever my aunt cooked rice, she would washed it, and then saved the rice water to feed my cousin. That's all he had as a baby for food was rice water and breast milk. Ironically despite being malnutrition as a baby he's now in his 40. Healthy, 6'1, and is a PharmD. He's smarter than all of our family members combined. I believe genetics also played a role but it's interesting seeing his life now compared to his childhood.

My mother always washed her rice, I grew up washing rice, but after hearing this I am definitely cutting back on my rice intake. Great info!

OMG! this is the reason why me and my kids get sick when we eat rice. Didn’t know why. I had to change my rice from regular rice to jasmine or Basmati rice. Thank you so much for education us on all these things. God bless you!🙏🙏🙏

Yes ! Must rinse your rice regardless of where it comes from. Even California..... I've bought a protein drink which came from California & it came with a CADMIUM warning in the label stating it was common to California! (Brand was Organifi complete protein all in one chocolate mix)

I buy jasmine rice from - yup - Texas. And I rinse my rice 5 times or more, until no longer cloudy. I make the best rice. 😊❤

The rice in the southern US is grown in fields that use to be cotton fields. They used arsenic to kill the boll weevil bugs. Even though the field has been changed from cotton to rice, they are still contaminated. It is estimated that arsenic can have a residence time life of 9000 years in the soil. I have been buying my rice from California growers for years.

I’m on a gluten free intermittent detox, so I consume rice on daily basis. For someone like me, with heavy metal toxicity, this is what my holistic doctor told me to do. Any rice needs to be washed with bicarbonate till water is clear, parboil for 10 minutes max, drain the dirty water and replace with fresh new water. Wipe down the sides of the pot, you’ll notice a lot of the dirt tends to bind there. Also I’d like to add that arsenics are sprayed on fruits and veggies, so soak in sodium bicarbonate for 10+ minutes. The bicarbonate molecules bind to metals.

🎉❤❤❤❤ so glad you we covering it in Publix

I usually by my ric e from my local Japanese / Chinese supermarket and grocery store that was imported from Japan / China, SE Asia and like most Asian we wash our rice really well before cooking it usually 5-7 times

I’m so grateful for this man. I learn so much from this channel. Thank you!

It was just a few years ago I learned that rice should be rinsed to remove the Arsenic. I was reading a Japanese recipe and rinsing the rice was mentioned.. I was shocked, to say the least, to learn about Arsenic!

What makes this channel the best is that it has to do with health, life, and longevity. Thank you.

thank you so much for informing the public and helping me to improve my family's health. I want to buy your cook book. You should have your own TVshow!!! God bless you and your family!

I always rinse all grain very well , I can’t imagine how many animal , dirty dust , bad storage etc etc this grains have before I opened a bag . Clean every thing !!!!

This is why we give thanks for our food and ask God to bless it and build our body in the right way and give energy 🙏

I love this guy. Thank you so much for your great information. I'll be going to my cabinet right now and look for rice to throw out

Thank you , I had high arsenic , I ate thai food alot . I don't go to Asia restaurant anymore . I hardly eat out now . I'll wash the rice now .

I always wash my rice by grabbing it and rubbing it in your hand under the water in the bowl. Almost like kneading dough. The water turns milky rinse, do it again and cook. Thank you, I never thought arsenic could be in rice. But My mom always believed in washing everything you buy, before eating or cooking it.💕

I'm from Louisiana and my mother and grandmother always washed their rice. I wash my rice, until the water is clear. It's just the way we prepare it for cooking.

Continuing water shortages are going to make rice cultivation in California ever more problematic. Then, of course, there's the problem that California rice, while lower in arsenic, does still contain arsenic. To put the amount into perspective, according to a Consumer Reports article from 2014, California rice contains 38% less arsenic than rice from Texas, Arkansas, or Louisiana (the highest levels in the country). That implies, though, that California rice still contains 62% as much arsenic as the highest levels in the country.

Thank u i am a daily eater of rice. I had no idea again. Why is there no info when shopping. Wild rice im in thank u again. Excellent. Keep on keeping on

My mother always washed the rice... so I grew up doing the same. It was a shocker to me when I found out as an adult that some people didn't wash their rice. Wash or not it seems like we all have to cut back on rice until rice manufactures can find a way to remove the arsenic or the government force them to do it which is the more likely scenario.

For other people who would like to know, rice with the least arsenic is Basmati rice from the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, and Jasmine rice from Thailand. How to Prepare & Cook Rice to Remove Most Arsenic *Rinse/wash rice repeatedly until the water is as clear as you can get it *Soak your rice overnight - this opens up the grain and allows the arsenic to escape *Drain the rice and rinse thoroughly with fresh water *For every part rice add five parts water and cook until the rice is tender - do not allow it to boil dry. *Drain the rice and rinse again with hot water to get rid of the last of the cooking water.

Thank you!!! I have been off grains for a while now. And I miss it!! I'm going to have some really soon!!

:/ I literally gave myself arsonic poisoning from eating rice over the span of 2-3months. Just got on a wild homemade sushi and fried rice kick eating at least 3-4 dried cup measurements of rice every day atleast 6 days a week (some days I ate 5-7 dried cups),. All thse cups rinsed and cooked in a normal rice cooker. Ate alot of seaweed to which didn't help the arsonic. Welp 1 month in I was fine, 2nd month I was feeling oddly sickly not to sure why. Also got this new very odd aftertaste after coughing like a metalic/eggy/throwup taste. Getting into that 3rd month I kenw something was up. Was getting a stinging in my nervs in the joints of my fingers like my nervs were being pinched. I started to get warts on my face and on my hair line especially right at my neckhair line. Lots of bumpy lesions. One on my cheek was a straight up black wart as well as another one near my front hair line. Was feeling awful. Mind you I'm not just eating rice, I"m eating lots of veggies and fruits to as normal. Welp after realzing this thing on my face isn't just a zit gone bad, it struck me that oh snap wait this is a wart. Instantly remembered a video back to a nutritionfacts video about rice/arsonic/warts relations. Went to the doc and had them test me and yep I straight gave myself arsenic poising and pretty sever to having gone at it constantly 3months. After the diagnosis I just cut off rice cold turkey. By now I was litterly bed ridden constantly coughing with the worst breath known to man from the arsenic effecting my gut. Called a week off work to recover. Within that week everything momentarily finally went away. Depending on what I eat like junkfood the symptoms would come back particularly the taste. Just takes alot of time to pretty much pee out all the arsonic in me. Fast forward 2 months and I'm pretty good now. All the warts are gone but the one on my cheek that slowly is widdling itself away. All the other warts went away pretty easily like the ones on my neck hair line and the one near my front hair line. Everyday they'd scale over and I'd peel them little by little every day till they're completely gone. The one on my cheek being the exception as it grows as I eat bad and goes away as I stick to eating healthy, but overall as my arsonic goes down it gets noticeably easier to widdle at. Arsnoic is no joke. Im asian I ate rice all the time growing up, but recently I went way to ham on the stuff lol. Rice was the main dish for breakfast lunch and dinner. Not just a bowl here and there, I was eating literal rice cookers worth every day sometimes 2 rice cookers worth. I'm a fit guy to not fat not even average by american standards. I guess that also adds to my susceptibility to arsenic being smaller. But yea, arsenic in rice is no joke if if you really push it. For reference I was mainly eating sushi rice in those 20lb totes, and jasmine rice here and there. Also washed the rice multiple times before coolking every time. Washing ain't going to do enough to stop the arsenic.

My preferred brand of rice is jasmine rice. Washing my rice before cooking has been my practice for years. In addition to washing, I also add about a tablespoon and a half of apple cider vinegar to the water prior to cooking, per 4 to 5 cups of rice. The vinegar preserves the rice from spoiling, reduces arsenic levels, and promotes digestive and gut health. Thanks for your video advice.

I am doing keto for over 6months. Educated myself to eat better. Lost 22 pounds so far since July. Feel great. Less inflammation and more gym activities. You are what you eat. Be careful grocery shopping these days. Great channel. Thank you for your tips.

Thank you for taking the time to educate us. Amazing what we don't know.

I wondered why it tastes so damn good.

The traditional Indian way of cooking rice is to wash it well a few times and add it to water in the pan after the water comes to a boil. For one measure of rice boil 5-6 measures of water. And enough water as required to maintain that ratio as the rice gets cooked. When the rice has been cooked to your desired softness, turn off the stove and empty the contents into a big enough colander until the starchy water is fully drained. The transfer the rice back to the container. This method not only removes arsenic and other contaminants to a high degree, but also removes the excess starch, making it ideal for diabetics, calorie watchers, those on a diet, etc.

I'm Chinese, so rinsing rice is a must. We always washed it 3 times or until the water is clear.

My mother knew about this and always washed the rice a couple of times before making it. I’ve been washing my rice since i started cooking, but have moved over to quinoa already.

You can even leave the rice in the water for hours. It’ll even rinse more arsenic .

We were taught to add baking soda(sodium bicarbonate) to water while washing any food, especially for greens. I might use when washing rice too

This may sound funny but going to sleep early 8-10pm is crucial because this is when your body detoxes and we can see how important that is nowadays! You never know what you may be eating. This is also why detoxes for everyone are super useful. Quarterly cleanses are a fantastic way to keep the body clear of stuff like this 🙂

Another way to remove most of the arsenic from your rice is to cook it in a LOT of water, then drain it, just like pasta. Do that and you'll be pouring most of the arsenic down the drain, instead of eating it. Those boil-in-bag rices have the right idea, and the cooked rice has the least amount of arsenic in them, solely because of the cooking method.

Can't wait for the baby food video! I read an article that even organic baby food had a lot of metal. I also saw a method of parboiling with absorption method by Sci Tech Daily to remove most arsenic from rice while keeping the nutrients.

You're honestly a godsend teaching us how to maneuver through a grocery store landmine without getting blown up!

We get our rice from Cali. I'm from Hawaii, and Hinode rice is our go-to rice for generations. We always wash our rice, at least three times before cooking.

I watched a news segment interviewing scientists that said the heavy metals are inside the rice and can't be washed away.

In Persian cooking, white rice is used , we wash 3 times and then soak with very salty water for a min one hour before boiling it (rice silos often attract rats and they leave their faeces behind). Once I became aware of recent studies and how to effectively remove the Arsenic, I first wash 3 times, then soak 3 times, each min 30 minutes then pour off the water and then finally soak with salt for one to two hours, then pour off the water and boil it. Baes on this study I found, this way, you remove up to 95% of the Arsenic. Given, you will not reach 100% Arsenic free rice, sticking to moderation in consuming rice and any other food items makes a lot of sense.

I would have thought rinsing the rice until clear was a no brainer?! Anyway, at this point if we are gonna worry about every little thing that goes into our mouths, we are gonna starve! It doesn’t matter what it is, even if it is vegetables and salads those are bound to be bad for you too! What guarantee do I have that is really organic? Because is labeled as such? That’s very easy to do.. There is people that drink protein smoothies and powder proteins and lots of man made crap! Use your common sense, eat a balanced meal, avoid fast food, sugary drinks and packaged food. Avoid candy, exercise or at least go to the park to walk 3times a week, drink water when you are thirsty and keep yourself busy! EAT TO LIVE AND DON’T LIVE TO EAT! Come on people! Don’t obsess too much! We are ALL gonna die when our time comes it doesn’t matter if you are healthy or not, young or old. You only have ONE life, enjoy it ! If one day you eat a cookie so what? Just eat the damn cookie and be happy and move on! Geez

A friends wife is from Japan and he told me she always rinses her rice until the water come out clear. He said that rinsing (or washing) also gets rid of a lot of starch, which I’m thinking is all of the white that clouds the water.

My wife is from the Philippines and they grow their own rice. And when they dry it they spread it on the side of the road and cars drive by it all day. It's very interesting.

Thanks, this was a reminder to me, I heard about it years ago and washed my black rice for a while until I got lax and quit. I will definitely start washing it again. Everyone needs to know this information 👍

I am happy that I came across this video. I heard about arsenic in rice and I was wondering what I should do with my big bag of organic brown rice from California. Now I feel better about eating it. Thanks for the washing tip.

Well that was eye opening for me. What good is paying taxes for all of these agencies to help protect our food supply when they aren't doing a thing at all to protect the consumer?

Wild Rice For Now On..THANKS FOR THE INFO. 😊

I would recommend using non-powdery gloves when rinsing your rice, so your body does not absorb the chemicals released off of the rice into the water.

My mom ate as healthy as Bobby for most of her life, if not better. She got on a brown rice kick and ate it everyday for about 2-3 years before she found out about the arsenic then stopped eating it immediately. Her hereditary cancerous tumor showed up not too long after. She is now deceased about 7 years later, no radiation or chemo. Bless her soul. I love you momma. 😘

Had no idea. I do wash my rice but will switch to the wild rice from now on. Please keep the information coming. I am trying to eat clean but the US does not look after our health!

Let’s get something clear all the information that Bobby provides is great. The body can adapt and I believe that if you have to walk on eggshells to watch what you eat what happens when there comes in time when you can’t eat all these clean healthful foods?

Hey I just wanted to say that I'm so impressed with your abundance of knowledge when it comes to healthy eating that when I teach my nutrition class at the modeling school I work at in Rocky Hill,CT,I tell my students to subscribe to your channel while in teaching basic nutrition.I teach a new batch of kids(men or women once a week on average wt 12 to 15 students on average.just keep giving me good content like you have been doing and I'll keep doing my part to promote your channel 👍🤗

The operative word in the Lumberg product is 'blend' which includes regular, arsenic-laden black, brown, and red rice. It's on the back of the packaging.

I also read if you cook the rice and store it, the next day the arsenic concentration also decreases

Hi just to note in 2014 when this news broke it was due to testing brown rice syrup which had an off the chart level of inorganic arsenic. Soon after I found brown rice syrup and other rice flour added into snack bars and other things even refried beans 🙄so be on the lookout...for those of us that are gluten free rice flour, syrup, starch is ubiquitous...stay safe!

Jesus continue to protect me and my family EVERYTHING we eat or have eaten is poisonous 🙏

Depending on the rice, rinsing repeatedly parboiling can help reduce the amount of arsenic you're consuming immensely. #growingupnigerian 😊

I love when Bobby talks smack about something, and then a customer comes into view and proceeds to pick that 😂

I super appreciate your video. I just bought two big bags of jasmine rice. And it’s probably not the best but I like the taste flavor and it doesn’t take that long to cook. However! Until now I understand why you should rinse your rice I appreciate the advice and spreading the word.

Since the 1950's my mom always rinsed the rice before cooking it, especially when she made Spanish rice (the rice comes out fluffier).

In America, we are used to just going to the local store and picking up whatever food we see on the shelf without so much as a glance as to where the food was grown or or packaged. We see the price and into the cart it goes! Thank you for your research and informative sharing about important food facts that we all need to know to make ourselves and our family healthier.

Thanks doctor , this will change me to choose which rice I need to eat because can’t live without rice 😂 🙏🏻

There are studies that say soaking your rice and other grains in water for few hours reduces arsenic level, phytonutrients etc.

Rinse rice until water runs clear and get rice from California when possible. You'll be fine.

Plunge your rice into baking soda and vinegar, 2 table spoons of each in a bowl of water. Leave 2 hours and rincé 5-7 times.

True, i have stopped eating rice 1year and a 2 weeks ago, i am now pain free medication free and able to run and stand after being sick for the last 15 years.I discovered keto diet.since i started my whole family followed as they saw how i got healthy again.

3:00 Both wild rice and cultivated rice are grasses. And we consume the grain from both. They just belong to different species.

My daddy always ate white rice and he always rinsed it well, he passed away last year not from the plague, he passed away of old age of 95. His brother passed away a few months later he was 100 years 17 days. Also not from the plague .They both ate white rice every day of their life they always, always rinsed it well.

While you are right with your content. I think it is important to give ALL information and not just say US rice is best. To be clear rice from different regions will contain different levels of arsenic. Study shows that white basmati rice from California, Pakistan and India are lower arsenic region's for rice. Also ppl can pick quinoa, buckwheat, and millet is also know to be on the lower arsenic level. It's true Texas is the worst place to get rice from due to they have highest-rated arsenic levels. Most importantly due your OWN research as it is always easier to listen to someone given you the information it always better to follow up for your own knowledge.🙂

Thank you, I will pass this along to my family. I eat very few grains these days, bc I eat for my bloodtype now, and vegetables, bison, and elk are at the top of my food pyramid, not grains.

I have heard the exact opposite. I listened to a famous doctor say that rice, basmati rice from India had the lowest arsenic content.

Basmati rice! my favorite and yes I always wash it more than 7 times.

Please, can you do an episode on how to cook wild rice?

so many years later I learned there is a lot of arsenic in brown rice, which I thought was healthier than white. Haven't touched it since. I ate enough for a lifetime in the past few years.

There has also been plastic rice from China. Arsenic has been a problem for many years. We don't eat much rice. We often use riced organic cauliflower, from Costco, instead. In soups, it great to use in lieu of rice.

the rinsing and cooking methods you described to reduce arsenic are the same that i see Asians use on many you tube videos. in fact, i started washing my rice because i saw them do that....Thanks Bobby. Best regards to you and your Beautiful Family. Thanks for the info you share, and the care you put into research and education.

My parents always washed rice, but it was never for that reason 😅 they washed it because it might have bugs that they couldn't see. I'm so glad we always practiced this when it came to Rice and also Grits 😊🙌🏾🇧🇸

Always wash your rice first. Cause rice production is dirty on that conveyor belt . U never know if they actually clean it. That's why it's so cloudy at first when u prewash

California rice might not have arsenic, but it probably has prozac from the water supply.

Thank you for sharing and helping us understand alternatives to minimize our arsenic exposure. It’s good we have plants that clean our environment, but it’s also important to know which foods are hanging on to those toxins.

I'm from the Caribbean and I grew up seeing everyone wash their rice, and continue to do so without even knowing the real reason for it, other than cleaning it. Didnt know about arsenic

The seeds of all grasses are grains, and both wild and domestic rice are rice and are grasses.

I substitute rice alot with quinoa,I love quinoa😊 But when I do consume rice its Jasmine or brown rice.

He mentioned there are some SE Asian rice that’s low in arsenic but he blew them off and said he prefers USA rice. I guess that was the message he intended to send home.