Last Updated on January 7, 2021
The rice gets enriched with non-organic arsenic and becomes completely washed out of soil due to the flooded fields where it grows. So if you eat rice on a daily basis, your chances of getting diabetes will get higher and you may develop nervous system diseases, mental disorders, bladder and lung cancer.
According to scientists of Queen’s University of Belfast, the only way to make the rice harmless is by leaving it overnight in water, that way the concentration of the arsenic will be decreased by 80%.