Arsenic in Rice| Why Rice Cereal Should NOT be Baby’s First Food

The best way to limit exposure to arsenic in rice is to rinse all rice well, avoid rice syrup sweeteners and more importantly, don’t offer babies rice cereal as a staple in their diets. Commercial rice cereals tested high across all brands; the arsenic levels were 10 times higher than the limit allowed in drinking water. For more than a century now, rice cereal…

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