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Re:Rice fuels diabetes and climate crises by chomp on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @09:11AM (#35356735)
Both naturally from rocks and soil, and latent arsenic from decades of arsenic pesticide use. Arsenic pesticides have been banned for a while, but they’re still in the soil.

Rice, for whatever reason, can take up this element more readily than other crops. There has been some research on this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29749629/

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Re:Rice fuels diabetes and climate crises by unixgoddess on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @10:48AM (#35358076)
what confuses me is not the origin of the arsenic in rice, but why there's more after you process the rice... where does it come from??
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Re:Rice fuels diabetes and climate crises by chomp on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:00PM (#35359139)
Depends on your definition of "process", but parboiled rice can use the same arsenic contaminated groundwater and can raise the arsenic content depending on the process used, whereas mechanical hulling reduces it.
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