Julianne wrote:

I know that I am probably washing away most of the vitamins, etc.


The only "vitamins" you are going to be washing away are minuscule
amounts of synthetic B-Vitamins... Milling rice strips off the bran
layer, leaving a nutritionally worthless core... In this bran layer
(that was just discarded) resides nutrients of vital importance in the
diet, making white rice a poor choice... Fiber is dramatically lower in
white rice, as are the essential oils (EFA's), most of the B vitamins,
and important minerals... So in a sense, by milling rice, you're
"throwing out the baby with the bath water"... Worry over whether or not
to rinse white rice is tantamount to adding extra lettuce to your Big
Mac in order to get that extra daily serving of vegetables...

~john!


....yeah I said "tantamount"...