科学家警告通常的煮饭方式会导致食用者产生各种健康问题 [英国媒体]

Experiments suggest normal method for cooking rice can expose consumers to range of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and cancer

科学家警告通常的煮饭方式会导致食用者产生各种健康问题

【日期】2017年2月9日

Scientists warn that the usual method of cooking rice — simply boiling it in a pan with some water — can expose those who eat it to traces of the poison arsenic JMacPherson/Flickr

科学家警告普通的煮饭方式——也就是把米和水放进锅里煮熟，可能会令进食者摄入有毒的砷。



Millions of people are putting themselves at risk by cooking their rice incorrectly, scientists have warned.

科学家警告，有百万人因为不当的煮饭方式而将自身置于危险之中。

Recent experiments show a common method of cooking rice — simply boiling it in a pan until the water has steamed out — can expose those who eat it to traces of the poison arsenic, which contaminates rice while it is growing as a result of industrial toxins and pesticides.

最近的实验显示，使用通常的煮饭方法——把米和水放进锅里煮熟直至水干，可能会令进食者摄入有毒的砷。这些砷来自于大米生长时吸收的工业毒素和农药。

The chemical has been linked to a range of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and cancer, as well as development problems.

砷这种化学元素可能会导致各种健康问题，像是心脏病，糖尿病和癌症，也会引起发育上的问题。

While it is generally believed traces of arsenic are expelled when the rice is cooked, it has now been claimed this only takes place when the rice is soaked overnight.

虽然通常认为在把米煮熟时砷就会被排除，但现在的研究发现只有把米浸一晚上才能有效排除砷。

Andy Meharg, professor of biological sciences at Queens University Belfast, tested three ways of cooking rice for the BBC programme 'Trust Me, I’m a Doctor', to see whether it altered the levels of arsenic.

贝尔法斯特女王大学的生物科学Andy Meharg教授，在BBC节目《Trust Me, I’m a Doctor》中尝试了三种煮饭的方法，试图找出哪种方法能更好的减少砷含量。



In the first method, Professor Meharg used a ratio of two parts water to one part rice, where the water was “steamed out” during cooking — a method commonly used.

在第一种方法中，Meharg教授先用了通常煮饭的方法，米和水的比例为1比2，然后煮至水干。

He found this left most of the arsenic present.

他发现还有很多砷元素存在于米饭中。

By contrast, when the he used five parts water to one part rice and washed the excess water off, levels of arsenic were almost halved, while in the third method, in which the rice was soaked overnight,  levels of the toxin were reduced by 80 per cent.

对比起来，当米和水的比例为1比5，煮好后把多余的水倒掉，砷的含量下降了一半。（译注：这还能吃吗？）而在第三种方法里，米饭在水里泡浸了一晚再煮，砷的含量下降了80%。

The safest method of cooking rice is therefore to soak it overnight, then wash and rinse it until the water is clear, before draining it well and boiling in a saucepan, with a ratio of five parts water to one part rice.

所以煮饭最安全的方法，是把米在水里浸一晚，然后在煮之前多洗几次直到水清，最后再用1比5的米水比例煮饭。（译注：我去！要不要这么夸张。）

According to 2014 research from Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Institute for Global Food Security, around 58 per cent of rice-based products in the UK contained high levels of arsenic. However, new legal limits were introduced last year by the EU in response to safety concerns. 

根据第四台《Dispatches and the Institute for Global Food Security》在2014年的研究，英国生产的58%的大米含有大量的砷。但是，基于这种担忧，欧盟去年出台了新的法律规定。


Kitwench
I've read multiple articles on this sudden panic, and not ONE of them gives the amounts of arsenic found in the rice to begin with, nor do they mention what is considered to be a 'safe' level of arsenic.
Clearly there must be some safe level, as they're not saying EEK - Don't Eat Rice, EVER!
Sounds like a ~Doom n Gloom of the Day~ hyped up click bait idea to me...

我找了几篇关于这个“恐慌”的文章，没有一篇给出具体的砷含量，不管是煮之前还是之后。
很明显人体应该能安全吸收一定含量的砷，否则他们就会叫我们永远不要吃米了。
感觉这种文章就是用来钓鱼的。（译注：说得好，抛开剂量谈毒性就是耍流氓！大家不要全信这种文章，要有自己的判断！）

Nirvana
I don't want to eat any rice cooked in his way.  It must taste horrible.  I don't know if his 'normal way of cooking rice' involves washing/rinsing it.  I know some people don't wash rice at all.  Rice shouldn't be soaked before being thoroughly washed/rinsed.  Otherwise it will absorb the dirty water and smell of bran.  It should be soaked afterward then cooked with a ratio of 1.2 parts of water to one part rice.    

这样煮出来的米味道一定很可怕。我不知道这里所谓的“普通煮饭方式”包不包括洗米。我知道有些人完全不洗就直接煮，然而这是不对的。不洗米直接泡水会让米吸收脏水，闻起来也有一股糠的味道。米饭浸泡过之后应该用1.2比1的米水比例来煮才对。

Bobolink
The entire rice-eating population of countries like India must be sh*tting themselves...

吃米的国家听到这个岂不是要尿裤子...

ABailey
Just tell us how many metric ton per serving we must eat before any health risk at all.

直接告诉我们要吃多少米才会达到危险警戒不就好了。

David13
We are apparently doomed, whatever we eat, so we may as well stop eating anything, fnckwit.

是哦，干脆我们什么都不要吃等死算了。扯XX蛋！

zenithmaster
I'd rather stop cooking rice at home than eat some mush that's been soaked overnight.

我宁愿不吃米也不想吃泡过一晚的东西！

gungajin
small doses of arsenic prevent hair loss ;-)

其实极少剂量的砷可以防止脱发;-)

I'm Chinese and this is utter rubbish, if you soak the rice overnight then you will be eating wallpaper paste the next day!

我是中国人，这篇文章就是瞎扯蛋。把米泡一晚上第二天你吃到的会是抹墙的浆糊。

BogeyMan
Of course this article is utter rubbish, just as anyone who says "Trust me, I'm a doctor", that being an appeal to authority in lieu of presenting hard evidence. ;-)

这篇文章当然是瞎扯淡，就像有人说“Trust me, I'm a doctor”（译注：吐槽电视节目名字是“相信我，我是医生。”），而不给出具体可靠的证据。

DavidM
None of this has anything to do with additives or pesticides, as some people are assuming, and eating organic rice will not make any difference. Arsenic is present naturally in the environment and the rice picks it up and concentrates it as it grows.
One problem with soaking rice and then throwing away the cooking water is that many of the vitamins and minerals in rice are water soluble, so a lot of the nutrients will go down the plughole, along with the arsenic.

这些文章没有一篇提到添加剂和农药有关的东西，所以就算吃有机大米也不会有什么不同。砷自然存在于自然环境中，只不过大米生长的时候吸收了这些元素。用过多的水煮饭然后把水倒掉会让大量水溶性的维他命和矿物质流失，所以很多营养学家还是建议不要这样做。