Soooo it’s safe to eat without throwing the eater out
aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Let’s do the math. Rice contains about 0.4 mg/kg As by weight. The “bad” rice in Louisiana or whatever contains about 75% more - about 0.7 mg/kg. Let’s round up to 1 mg/kg to make the math easy. Chronic exposure limits for a 50 kg adult are about 5 mg/day (on the low end).
So you’d have to choke down a full 10 lb bag of rice every day (about 110 cups of cooked rice) to start to tip the scales. Other sources of arsenic, like groundwater, are likely far more significant.
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GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Well, if you were previously throwing anyone who ate the rice in the garbage, then yes, not doing that would be safe.
^sorry,^ ^I^ ^couldn’t ^ ^resist.^ ^yes,^ ^it’s^ ^safe^ ^to^ ^eat^ ^rice^ ^without^ ^throwing^ ^out^ ^the^ ^first^ ^batch^ ^of^ ^water.^
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Challenge accepted.