We often do things that are “less than ideal” for our health, sometimes without even realizing it, particularly when it comes to cooking, cleaning and storing food. Many people have habits that will be incredibly harmful in the long term.
Wellness and gut health expert, Dr. Dimple Jangda, uses her platform to share hacks and “PSAs” to help combat that blissful ignorance, specifically in the kitchen. In a recent post, she admitted that there are several foods people are unknowingly ingesting that end up being toxic to their overall wellbeing.
“Many people don’t know this,” she revealed,” but, there are several foods that should not go in your refrigerator … and people are still ingesting them.”
Among the food is cooked rice.
“Lots of people have started keeping cooked rice in the refrigerator, because of the resistance to starch,” Dr. Jangda said. “However, rice is one of the ingredients that catches mold the fastest. If you’re going to refrigerate it — not longer than 24 hours.”
Other experts like Dr. Janine Bowring agree, saying that you should really “never be eating leftover rice.”
With the ability to grow mold very easily, leftover rice has the potential to turn toxic much faster in the refrigerator than other foods. In addition, Dr. Bowring said cooked rice has the potential to grow a specific bacteria called “b. cereus” that’s linked with food poisoning.
So, it’s better to cook the quantity for a meal, as rice doesn’t take much to cook.
Other items she advised against storing in the fridge include: onions, peeled garlic and fresh ginger.