Here’s the truth about rice cakes — and why they’re not as healthy as you might think. Listen, cooked white rice is a clean, simple carb source. No problem there. But rice cakes are a completely different story. They’re made by exposing rice to extreme heat and pressure until it literally explodes into that crunchy disc. And when you cook rice this way — at super high temperatures — you create acrylamide. Which is a chemical that forms during extreme-heat cooking of starchy foods... And it’s cla