Can, doesn’t mean it should. Rice should be cooked in just enough water for it to be absorbed or boiled off. Many types of rice are packaged with added minerals and shouldn’t be washed (check your packaging, you loose this if you have to drain).

Even the cheapest rice cookers use clever physics to fully automate this process and make it come out perfect every time.

what countries still have fortified rice? it feels like a cold war thing idky

I mean salt is still iodized. Fun fact, adding iodine to salt is actually seen as one of the most cost effective public health measures ever done.