No-Cook Rice Milk

I’m making this for my kitty. I’m going to try cooking the rice I’ll be straining out (for me).

Zero-Waste Chef

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Some brands of rice milk contain microscopic bits of metal.

I had been planning on writing a post on homemade rice milk at some point, but after reading an article last week in Mother Jones about this latest non-food food additive, I decided I better whip up a batch of rice milk and write a post about it sooner rather than later.

According to the writer (and the scientific sources he cites), nano-size particles (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter) of titanium-dioxide now lurk in, among other products, Dannon Greek Plain YogurtSilk Original Soy MilkRice Dream Rice Drink, Hershey’s Bliss Dark Chocolate and Kraft’s American Cheese-Like Singles. Why? Because nanoparticles of titanium dioxide whiten white foods like yogurt and rice milk and brighten dark foods like chocolate.

How do nanoparticles affect the body? Well…

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