Does Rice Make Pigeons Explode?

Neither rice nor baking soda or Alka seltzer makes pigeons explode, so is for other birds. The myth that rice expands in the pigeon's stomach and eventually explode is not true and neither backed by science.

What food makes pigeons explode?

All that rice absorbs the water at an incredible rate and expands. Hey presto, exploding pigeons! The facts are that rice absorbs water very slowly, even the easy/fast cook kind.

Do pigeons explode eating rice?

Yes, pigeons can eat rice...and they won't explode afterwards either! For some reason people have got hold of the idea that feeding pigeons' rice is deadly, that they will die in a spectacularly explosive way. This is an urban myth which became common back in the 1980s.