Why you should know:
Arsenic is a carcinogen and has various other negative health effects; enough to warrant exposure limits in various jurisdictions. A five minute boil-and-discard step before cooking is a simple way to reduce your exposure, especially if you eat a lot of rice.
Details are in the study, linked in the title of this post. Here’s a diagram from the abstract:
You can actually buy parboiled rice which have been dried. It’s very close in price to white rice and not as sticky as regular rice.
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It takes just as long to cook, and has the texture of parboiled rice.