Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!ariels From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: do you wash rice? Message-ID: <558@orca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 10:41:21 EST Article-I.D.: orca.558 Posted: Tue Feb 7 10:41:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:19:52 EST References: <1526@tekig1.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR. Lines: 13 There is absolutely, posotutely a difference between Uncle Ben's and the 100 lb sacks from the Oriental food store! You should wash the rice from the Oriental food store, because the stuff they use to polish the rice (remove the hulls, make it nice and white, etc) is talc. Talc is very not good for you to eat. Rice you get from Uncle Ben, or brown rice, doesn't need to be rinsed. In fact, it probably WOULD remove some of the nutrients from the Uncle Ben's if you rinsed it. Ariel (just telling you what my mama told me) Shattan ..!tektronix!orca!ariels