date:May 14, 2012
juices.
In fact, rice takes up arsenic from the soil, Jackson explained. As it turns out arsenic looks very much like silica to the rice plant and rice takes up silica to help it stand up in water logged soils.
Different varieties of rice take up different amounts of arsenic, Jackson said. Brown rice tends to have particularly high levels of arsenic.
Wahida Karmally, a researcher unaffiliated with the new study, was alarmed by Jacksons findings.
These results are extremely scary, said Karmally,