[Freedom56v2]

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.

[ShivaFan]

Someone noted rice.

Actually, I have done an extensive study of this - brown rice has much more higher arsenic in it than bleached/white rice.

And in my study of rice from all over the world, the highest amount of arsenic was found in California grown brown rice. West Texas was about in third place, very bad.

So no, if you are eating California or West Texas brown rice, you are eating among the top 3 of the worst.