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Posted 10/31/2014 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
I've been gluten free for a long time, but the amount of articles I've read stating rice's susceptability to arsenic toxicity is alarming. I Eat a plate of brown rice every day, and my GF bread I eat for lunch is made of rice. I wonder if I would be better off just eating 9 grain bread?

Thoughts?
Posted 10/31/2014 10:59 PM (GMT 0)
I have been buying organic rice...and hoping it doesn't also have the arsenic in it.

It's expensive though.
Posted 11/1/2014 12:12 AM (GMT 0)
I found this brief bit about arsenic and rice. www.webmd.com/diet/features/arsenic-food-faq?page=2 It's just the first part of the article.

And another. chriskresser.com/arsenic-in-rice-how-concerned-should-you-be My daughter, who doesn't like brown rice, always reminds me that white rice is safer.

Have you tried quinoa or millet?

9 grain bread might not agree with you.
Posted 11/1/2014 2:05 AM (GMT 0)
I eat Quinoa a lot. I am sensitive to rice so there's not a lot of options if one is gluten free too. I also found some pasta the we can eat called mung bean pasta. It's good in a stir fry.
Posted 11/1/2014 2:10 AM (GMT 0)
I vote for quinoa. It's gluten free and very high in protein.

Beware of oats and oatmeal.

The stores market them as gluten free, but they can still cause a reaction in people who are sensitive to gluten.

Margaret
Posted 11/1/2014 4:32 AM (GMT 0)
Lundberg's white basmati (grown in N California) has the lowest amount of arsenic. Arsenic is concentrated in the husk, and rice grown in the southern states where arsenic was used to treat cotton boll weevil infestations has high concentrations of it. Be careful of rice grown in Asia or South Asia because of uptake of lead and other heavy metals.

http://www.lundberg.com/info/arsenic-in-food/

The amount of arsenic in rice has nothing to do with whether or not it is organic. Rice naturally uptakes arsenic - if there is arsenic in the soil, rice will store it in the bran portion.

We don't use many grains other than white Lundberg basmati. We get our carbs from organic potatoes and sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, squash, apples, bananas and dark berries.
Posted 11/1/2014 4:51 AM (GMT 0)
Good info in this thread. I'll start eating more quinoa and white rice. Thanks ya'll
Posted 11/1/2014 6:41 AM (GMT 0)
Here's some info. on quinoa for you if you're interested. www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=142
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