Fact or Fiction: Uncooked Rice is Bad for Birds
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- You may have heard that throwing rice at weddings will hurt wild birds. But we’re here to say that myth isn’t backed up by the science -- and we can prove it with chemistry.
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This myth has appeared in all kinds of places, including an episode of The Simpsons in 2000.
I'm buying instant rice i want to see exploding birds.
So the real reason not to throw rice is because no one wants to clean it up afterwards, I guess.
And if it’s not cleaned up, birds will eat it, so the new problem will be the bird poop everywhere.
True , i dont believe in this bullshit information they came up
The worms will eat it.
Exploding birds the name of my new alternative rock band with an accordion.
Ohmydog Ohmydog 😂😂😂😂
Thank goodness! I threw an entire box of rice into the lawn because I felt bad when I was informed that the rice would expand. So glad I was misinformed!
me too bro..me too... I was so scared!!!!!!
I feed rice to birds all the time, and they love it.
Yea me too
Boiled or not boiled?
@@alexduran8726 Both!!
Same
Yes
If the water is going into the rice after the rice already fit inside the container (bird's crop) then the volume is conserved.
When the rice absorbs the water and expands that same water isn't still outside the rice to add to the total volume.
Not exactly. This is a question of physical chemistry, where water of hydration comes into play. For a relatively simple example, water is densest in a water state, at 4°C. When it gets cooler, the molecules expand into hexagonal structure due to where the electrons are most likely found on the molecule. The structure becomes a honeycomb shape. More than that, a bit wrinkly honeycomb because the water is a little off of being flat.
Adding water to starch is like adding beach balls to a noodle sculpture. It all binds together and is necessary for crystal structure. For example bluestone or copper sulfate. Each molecular crystal has five molecules of water to mediate its crystalline structure. Without water, bluestone is a gray, dusty powder that takes up way less space than the crystal structure.
We also throw rice in Hindu wedding
OK and 🤣
The only bird i saw exploded is when Fiona sang in the morning (Shrek)
i remember people using bags of birdseed at weddings because they said rice would kill birds. being raised on a farm i knew birds had gizzards to grind graine and birdseed and rice are grains.
Omg thank u I wanted to keep uncooked rice before I saw this!
Still, throwing birdseed isn't a bad thing. I thought it very cool and colorful at my wedding! And it's tried and true.
And so many "traditions" are just ideas that a number of people have adopted. Numbers of people have different ideas about color, money, decorations, food, flowers, etc. around the world, and they are all taken as traditional.
Inless people are alergi to bird seed
I want to see exploding birds.
Shoot a common pigeon
They won't actually explode, they'll just die slowly and in excruciating pain.
there are exploding birds. you can see them at angry birds 2
Well you can watch shrek Movie on how fiona sings with the bird 🤣
I've got a theory on the disproportionate expansion of cooked rice; the dehydration used in the drying process after the rice has been cooked causes the structure to shrink uniformly as the stresses from the water on the starch structure are removed, causing the granules to shrink, but because the process is typically done in a dessicator, the structure shift is going to be limited kinetically, making it more prone to rehydration with the new cooked-and-shrunk starch granules compared to just raw rice.
(as an aside, this deformation in the starch structure could be what causes instant rice to have a much more "mushy" texture, as all that shifting would cause dislocations almost amounting to physical predigestion. All assuming I'm anywhere near right 😅)
A hypothesis, then? I don't see any journal articles mentioned.
@@ginnyjollykidd If you'd like several references on the thoroughly thrilling topic of starch expansion kinetics, I'd encourage you do so on your own time.
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One hardly sees rice thrown at weddings nowadays. The real human/rice/bird nexus is more like what you would expect - complicated but less dramatic. As the video indicated, birds can eat a lot of rice and do just fine. So much so that US rice growers deploy various tactics (propane cannons, shotguns, “bird bombs” and repellents) to minimize seed, seedlings and grain lost to blackbirds, grackles, cowbirds, starlings and other birds. On the other hand, many of the same farmers flood harvested fields in the winter to provide winter habitat for migrating ducks and geese to compensate for the loss of wetlands along the the Mississippi Flyway. Birds do other things in rice fields as well. Thai farmers release ducks before planting to control snails and other pests as well as flatten out rice stubble. With millions of birds descending on rice fields all over the world, relatively few bird explosions are reported. Take that Ann Landers.
It hurts like heck when youre hit with it
I thought the rice attached version and was banned..
I would not feed birds brown rice but goldfinches LOVE chia seeds! And they hold 10 times their own weight in water so that's a LOT of expanding! That said, I would NOT feed birds BROWN rice as the stuff that makes it brown contains zero nutrition and is indigestible and if they can't get enough grit for some reason, that could be a problem. People don't put out grit for birds...not sure why...isn't that strange?
Brown rice isn't even good for people. Can't imagine it in a tiny bird's innards. I wonder if the hippie, "vegetarian" movement from the 70s might have killed some birds with brown rice and started gossip/rumors that ALL rice is bad for birds...interesting...
You shouldn't throw rice at weddings, because you're wasting food.
As you would be with millet, beans, and barley.
Don't worry, it won't go to waste. If the birds and bugs don't get it, there are fungi and other microbes that happily eat it.
Ya'll need to chill
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Ahhhhh 👌
It’s cus it absorbs the water in their crop drys them out then they die
How weird, I've somehow never heard this myth for rice, but I've heard it for bread.
Naw bread just causes obesity
Yeah they don’t explain. But dry rice. If enough eaten and depending on the type, will kill the bird. I had thought that it was safe that my bird would love it. But my quakers vet told me the first bird he had died due to eating 2 pieces of extremely dry rice. Like it was double dried somehow. Idk how and he didn’t know how to explain it either. He said that’s one of the reasons he became a vet cause he hated watching animals be treated wrong and end up dead. He no longer owns any pets and said it’s like his own way of making up for his dead pet. Which is sweet I suppose. But he gave me a long explanations why not to feed him any. And how cooked soft rice and water rice shouldn’t be chanced due to the fact that how much is safe depends on the bird itself rather than just the breed. It was really complicated but the idea was never feed them seed since it usually causes them to feel unwell which is a sign for bad consequences. He said to give my bird one soaked rice. Small. Cut in half he said. And my bird was off the whole day. He drank a lot of water and ate more than usually and after he pooped for a fourth time he seemed normal but slightly shaken. Kinda like when you get sick and when your no longer sick you feel a bit off and feel a lil sick still
Ok
I once found a pigeon and tried to take care of it and it exploded.
I fed it rice
I'm not saying that this video is wrong I'm just telling you guys about my experience.
I be damned if someone throw a handful of rice at me after my wedding
They thought this because of how rice expands when cooked. All grains do that when cooked lol
Can they eat grounded rice replied now
My drone flew into water. Thought it was done. I put it in a tub of rice and the rice absorbed all of the moisture. Drone was saved.
@Roger Dodget rice absorbs moisture.
@Roger Dodget Nope. Rice is safe non liquid solution. It pulls the water out of anything. Put all electronics in a bag of rice. Will be bone dry by the morning.
They have worm
So it would not blow birds 😀😀😀
Can crow's eat raw rice.its good or bad?for crows
U need to cook it first
Soaked and then cooked is safest
Bad for ducks to eat bread
Exploding birds loll
i don't think that's the point of the ornithologists. Those grains are just not needed for birds.
I FED MY BRID RICE UNCOOKED AAAAA
I just want a yes or no answer of whether it will make them explode
I feed birds rice at my balcony
I´m sure you did your research on this and it´s actually safe but you´re not being very precise here. Comparing birds eating rice in the wild to them having dried rice is especially strange to me. Have you never had fresh wheat berries? They´re soft and easy to chew, *quite* unlike the dried stuff you buy in the supermarket.
What does birds eating rice in the wild have to do with the rice that is thrown at weddings?
@@Silverizael They mention birds eating seeds in the wild at some point to back up the claim that birds shouldn´t get hurt eating rice. Which doesn´t make sense to me as an argument because wild seeds don´t tend to be dried.
Man I so much wanted this to be true....
In my neighborhood, we have a pigeon infestations. All balconies are covered with bird poop...
wtf u killin dem birdos????
@@spockbetterthey’re flying rats
Rice? We always fed them Alka Seltzer when I was a kid.
It's a myth Birds love rice
No they don’t explode. But they do die. Certain birds in China do eat rice and some don’t. Few birds can eat dry rice and not die. Watered then cooked rice is safe. But dry is murderous, especially depending on the amount. And most birds don’t like rice. Wild birds eat what they can and some birds just eat what people give them cause it’s an easy source of food and some have learned to eat from humans just cause people always feed them so they depend on people.
@@simplesimp9664 where did you come up with that. You can feed chickens dry rice with zero issues.
Fantastic 🧬 Science! At last someone actually PROVES a theory not just announces the result. Certainly would be great if some of the Major Media stations did the same. For instance, each time I hear Pseudo-Science-Experts. ANNOUNCE that we’re terrible people if we question #ClimateChangeKills in 10 years. See? I believe there are a few more factors involved in weather. Id much prefer a real climate expert like Patrick Moore, CO-founder of Greenpeace’s multifaceted teaching to explain the REAL SCIENCE. I ❤️ Science that’s EXPLAINED!
I believed it!
I feel so gullible.
In asia we feed all kinds of bird they all look fine and healthy, if in usa you see a bird drop down from the sky it much be they got gunned down from some baster
I love birds and i like eating rice
Why Not Buy Fruit That easy 😂
I came here because of some Simpsons clip 😂
Thumbs up if The Ranch brought me here...
LOL... people are intelligent money making HAHAHHAHA
I’m feeding birds rice and hot water
286 liker!
shinchan the best yay
First
Is it possible that instant rice is more slippery than regular rice, which is why you slipped but people at weddings don't?