Is anyone else noticing lower quality rice? ■ Each time I cook rice, I examine it and pick out black pieces, like with this bag of Uncle Ben's parboiled whole grain rice. In other brands of whole rice I have found green pieces, as if the rice did not fully ripen.

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[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting. I do want to avoid toxic chemicals. All the other rice I buy is labeled organic, both white and whole grain. And like you, I also buy organic Thai rice - here's some in my pantry, which I bought at the local Neighborhood Walmart.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Buy thai black rice and mix a little in with your white and you will get purple rice.

[–]rubberbiscuit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

FYI My memory was messed up and the other reply reminded me it is arsenic they sprayed on cotton that remains in the fields in the US now growing rice. Still, nice to avoid US grown rice. Check the labeling carefully it could be branded Thai rice but actually be grown somewhere else. I had to search lots of bags before finding one actually grown where I wanted it from!