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May 2012 Moms
jlsweets
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Arsenic in rice (rice cereal)
jlsweets
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Did anyone just watch Today Show about arsenic in rice? A bit scary with the research they are doing, saying moderate to high amounts of arsenic in rice. Will you continue to give your baby the cereal? Some researchs are saying giving the rice cereal only once a week to be safe since babies absorb the most of the arsenic. Others say moderation should be fine ...Obviously you hear both sides of the issue and Gerber says that they have extremly small amount of arsenic..What do you think?
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Re: Arsenic in rice (rice cereal)
But I will still be making rice to go with a spicy chicken soup I'm making for dinner tomorrow for our family. I still think everything in moderation is the key to surviving our world and all the bad things that may be in it.
We also skipped rice cereal because C had no interest in it. She prefers veggies to anything else so we go with that.
I agree with the PP everything in moderation!
Is the baby oatmeal safe??
I just called my pedi and asked this. My babies have had the rice cereal once and I will be returning the unopened boxes I have! My nurse said to go to oatmeal baby cereal next. She said it should be fine as long as it's the baby version (not just regular oatmeal) to which I responded "no duh".
Anyway the oatmeal is fine.
Oatmeal has more nutrition to it as well...
Does anyone know if organic rice is okay? I love rice (for myself) and buy organic brown rice. Interesting stuff.
I posted this on Babies:3-6 as well, but I'm over this B.S. If you read some of the articles they say that arsenic is even in veggies and often in water. Well, what the heck are we supposed to eat?! Every few months someone comes out with some sort of new hoodoo to make us think we are doing it wrong, and it's getting old.
Well, this afternoon I made my babies rice cereal WITH apple juice. So there!
From what I read the organic rice isn't any better. Someone posted that her dad works for the health department and they were told that the rice showing up with Arsenic in it is rice that is grown in fields that used to hold cotton. They would put a pesticide on the cotton that got into the soil and is now in the rice, ie arsenic. That's why the CA and Asian rice is 'safer' but who the heck knows which rice came from where? Consumer Reports tested the Earth's Best Organic rice cereal and that had high levels in it too. Sigh.
I was reading that brown rice is worse than white, since it has the hull (?).
Beech-nut had the lowest amount of arsenic than Gerber or Earth's Best. Organic rice for adults or babies was not any better. It did say in moderation is fine. When they start to eat it, it won't be much at all. By the time they will eat more than 1/4 cup full, you would probably have moved onto other food items.
If I choose to feed the rice cereal, I'm glad I already bought Beech-nut.
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Is there an article that says Beech Nut has lowest level of arsenic? I was at the grocery store just a few days ago and was trying to decide between Beech nut and Gerber...went with Beech Nut and glad I did.
I am skipping rice cereal, because it tends to make babies constipated (well it did with DD1). So we started oatmeal cereal yesterday. So far DD2 isn't a big fan, but we are going to keep trying.