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:
Give me the arsenic because there is no way I’m overcooking my rice to remove it
This is not suggesting the rice be overcooked, just cooked using a different process.
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Yes, thank you for the correction. I edited it.