My mom likes to shop at Dollar Tree. I read the labels of some stuff she bought. Food from China, India, and Egypt to name a few.
Much of the bagged rice I see on the shelves here comes from polluted China and India. I don’t know about pre-packaged stuff like Rice-A-Roni, etc.
I have now taken to buying only rice grown in US...Blue Ribbon brand.
Scary that rice is a great absorber of metals such as arsenic :(
I figure any rice grown here is better than China and India.
I was driving thru Arkansas this spring and recognized rice paddies. Turns out they are the the number one producer of rice in US.