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Rice. A 20lb bag can provide 70% of your food volume for a month and costs like $10. Easily the best poverty food hack there is.
Unfortunately a lot of rice is contaminated with arsenic due to pesticides. The only way to remove the arsenic also removes most of its nutrients. So you might be better off going for a different grain like wheat, oats or barley.
Arsenic aside, rice is probably one of the best deals when you consider how long a bag can feed you.
Seems like quite the FDA violation. Is it true?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10375490/#:~:text=The%20investigation%20concluded%20that%20the,'%20dry%2Dbrown%20rice%20cereal.
It should be an FDA violation, but the demand for rice is powerful and rice is a staple food for much of the world. It's like if the FDA tried to ban alcoholic beverages because they contain toxic chemicals (alcohol.)
As far as I know just cooking the rice with enough water solves the arsenic problem for the most part.
This is true for white rice. But using a lot of water also removes the vitamin fortification and makes it less nutritious. So you are left with the dilemma or either eating the arsenic or losing the vitamins.
For brown rice, no amount of water can remove all the arsenic since a lot more of it is in the outer part of the grain. This is unfortunate because in all other respects brown rice is the healthier option.
Also, some regional varieties of rice have less arsenic than others. Basically avoid rice grown in any country that uses or has ever used arsenic based pesticides. Even then, the rice will have a little arsenic since it is a naturally occurring mineral.
That is good to know, thank you 🙂.
We can't grow rice in Canada, so that definitely applies to us! Still cheap here, though.