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Wash your rice before you cook it. It removes all the foreign dust and some of the starch on the grains keeping them separate after it is cook.

While you can eat unwashed rice you'll notice a different in taste between washed and unwashed.

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you should because they could have some thing in them or a disease or something. that's what I was taught. plus it could have big nasties on it and you could get sick

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