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frontpage Posted by regcustomer88 • May 16, 2025

Sam's Club Members: 20-lbs Royal Basmati Rice

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Sam's Club has for their Members: 20-lbs Royal Basmati Rice for $16.48. Shipping and pickup orders are free for Plus Members on orders of $50+, otherwise shipping and pickup costs will vary by location.

Note: Prices may vary in club and online.

Select Costco Stores (link is for reference only) have 20-lbs Royal Basmati Rice for $16.46. In store purchase only.

Note: Item may be available in your local warehouse, prices may vary.

Thanks to Community Members abi.ra and regcustomer88 for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Naturally Aromatic
  • Premium Aged
  • Nutty Flavor and Enticing Aroma
  • Delightful in any Premium Rice Dish
  • Low Glycemic Index

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $4.58 lower (21% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $20.98
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 6159 customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • Don't have a Sam's Club Membership? Join today: Club Membership $50/yr. or Plus Membership $110/yr.
    • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here

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Written by regcustomer88
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Sam's Club has for their Members: 20-lbs Royal Basmati Rice for $16.48. Shipping and pickup orders are free for Plus Members on orders of $50+, otherwise shipping and pickup costs will vary by location.

Note: Prices may vary in club and online.

Select Costco Stores (link is for reference only) have 20-lbs Royal Basmati Rice for $16.46. In store purchase only.

Note: Item may be available in your local warehouse, prices may vary.

Thanks to Community Members abi.ra and regcustomer88 for finding this deal.

Features:
  • Naturally Aromatic
  • Premium Aged
  • Nutty Flavor and Enticing Aroma
  • Delightful in any Premium Rice Dish
  • Low Glycemic Index

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $4.58 lower (21% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $20.98
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 6159 customer reviews.
  • About this store:
    • Don't have a Sam's Club Membership? Join today: Club Membership $50/yr. or Plus Membership $110/yr.
    • If you don't have a Costco Warehouse Membership, you can sign-up here

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Low arsenic but potentially high cadmium. From the recent CNN article:

"Basmati rice from India, jasmine rice from Thailand and California-grown sushi and Calrose rice (a form of sushi rice) were at or below the 100 parts per billion levels set by the FDA for arsenic in infant rice cereals. However, the Indian basmati and Italian Arborio varieties contained the highest average levels of cadmium."
Yes its one of the best ever price I have seen in costco for 20lbs bag.

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May 16, 2025
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linktrakker
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Quote from CyberGuy :
99 Ranch is specifically a Chinese market, not just Asian.
Taiwanese* to be specific but they do sell a wide range of east asian and south east asian products, though I've not really seen any south asian products sold there.
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Santa_Claus
May 16, 2025
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Quote from Waygzh :
Everyone's talking about Cadmium and Arsenic. Whatever.

We bought this bag from Costco on a whim, wanted to try a good Basmati since Gordon Ramsey loves the stuff.

This stuff is INCREDIBLY herbal. Like, overpowers pretty much any dish for us. I found that I've had to heavily rinse the rice in a sieve for a minute or two and it toned it down significantly. We're still working down the last few pounds of the stuff, will probably go back to Jasmine.

But if herbal is your thing, this stuff has some intense flavor.
I always buy the cheap walmart rice. I never heard of any rice having a herbal flavor.
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Quote from Waygzh :
Everyone's talking about Cadmium and Arsenic. Whatever.

We bought this bag from Costco on a whim, wanted to try a good Basmati since Gordon Ramsey loves the stuff.

This stuff is INCREDIBLY herbal. Like, overpowers pretty much any dish for us. I found that I've had to heavily rinse the rice in a sieve for a minute or two and it toned it down significantly. We're still working down the last few pounds of the stuff, will probably go back to Jasmine.

But if herbal is your thing, this stuff has some intense flavor.

Wow, never experienced that in this brand, or any other basmati brand I've consumed in past many decades. A good basmati rice should be fluffy, long grained, aromatic and very tasty even though not having a strong taste of its own. This one is certainly NOT a good basmati, far from it. We usually buy great quality basmati rice from local Indian grocery stores, but bought this out of curiosity. It is terrible in texture and taste both (but not herbal, atleast to us!) And it needs to be washed up more thoroughly than the others we buy from Indian grocery stores. A true high quality aged basmati rice is a revelation. This one, is a cheap daily staple for the families who consume it in bulk. But even then, I won't subject anyone to it, and say, splurge a few dollars more for the real thing, and enjoy your meal a lot more.
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Quote from Deal2go :
been eating this bought from sams, costco and patel bro's for yrs.

is this instore eprice at sams or just online?
3 of us finish this in a month.

You mentioned Patel Brothers....you don't find Daawat or Kohinoor better? Some say even Tilda is better. We have been happy with Kohinoor Gold color pack for years now. I put it next to this rice, and just looking at the raw rice tells you how much shorter the grains of this one are, and that these aren't aged at all. When I cook this, rarely it turns out fluffy. But when I make any good quality basmati from the Indian grocery stores, it turns out so fluffy and everyone asks me how I made it or which brand I use. So I doubt if it is me making it wrong, after making rice for decades.
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Quote from MAK11 :
Yes its one of the best ever price I have seen in costco for 20lbs bag.
They imported excessive inventory out of fear of a tariff hike that never occurred, resulting in low prices to sell it off.
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Bought this at Costco just last week for $16.99 (SE Michigan)

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Quote from Dyscalculic :
Reverse tariffs on rice?
dayum... when Mr T imposed global tariffs, wife had me go buy 10 of these bags from Sam's. Yes we cook rice twice a day for 4 people! but price goes down??? I don't understand.
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Quote from MegaMaid :
Does this come with the free arsenic? I'm in.

It seems people in India are getting prone to heart disease and cancer after they started eating western junk food..
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Quote from Mr2ate1 :
https://www.samsclub.com/p/royal-...product_27
Also, another option Royal Sona Masoori Organic Rice, 20 lbs.
$15.98 @ Sam's Club
Completely different from basmati rice.

Also Royal is one of the worst basmati brands available in the US. Kirkland basmati is a good compromise between price and quality.
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Quote from abi.ra :
Wow, never experienced that in this brand, or any other basmati brand I've consumed in past many decades. A good basmati rice should be fluffy, long grained, aromatic and very tasty even though not having a strong taste of its own. This one is certainly NOT a good basmati, far from it. We usually buy great quality basmati rice from local Indian grocery stores, but bought this out of curiosity. It is terrible in texture and taste both (but not herbal, atleast to us!) And it needs to be washed up more thoroughly than the others we buy from Indian grocery stores. A true high quality aged basmati rice is a revelation. This one, is a cheap daily staple for the families who consume it in bulk. But even then, I won't subject anyone to it, and say, splurge a few dollars more for the real thing, and enjoy your meal a lot more.
Quote from freek :
Completely different from basmati rice.

Also Royal is one of the worst basmati brands available in the US. Kirkland basmati is a good compromise between price and quality.
Agree - this is a low-end basmati rice. Get it only if saving a few bucks is more important than quality.
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Extra long or nothing. Royal is bottom of the barrel.
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Quote from abi.ra :
You mentioned Patel Brothers....you don't find Daawat or Kohinoor better? Some say even Tilda is better. We have been happy with Kohinoor Gold color pack for years now. I put it next to this rice, and just looking at the raw rice tells you how much shorter the grains of this one are, and that these aren't aged at all. When I cook this, rarely it turns out fluffy. But when I make any good quality basmati from the Indian grocery stores, it turns out so fluffy and everyone asks me how I made it or which brand I use. So I doubt if it is me making it wrong, after making rice for decades.
Dawaat is overpriced so is GATE OF INDIA. I can' afford those two. Kohinoor I believe is another expensive brand,Tilda is not a premium like Dawaat or GOI. This same royal basmati rice at Patel bro is $21.00. Royal basmati works for us because it is not bad plus the price at costco and sams for $19.99 is not bad either.
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Quote from dealonlooker :
It seems people in India are getting prone to heart disease and cancer after they started eating western junk food..

Without making the same assertion blaming a certain geography or diet, what I can say neutrally.and confidently is that there is definitely a MAYO-CALYPSE happening in India, that too, not the real recipe, just a 'vegan' mayo made of hydrogenated cheap oils, thickeners, preservatives on everything. Look at any street food, or any 'fusion cuisine'....ugh everything laced with copious amounts of this white poison....and also fraudulently touted as cheese or liquid cheese or creamy sauce and used in pasta, pizza, sandwich, dosa and everything you can imagine. Let me find that article about thus. It's there on the internet.

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Quote from smtpuser :
Don't see this price in Utah stores , so could be only in your locks stores. They might be clearing off for whatever reason.
Probably due to heavy metal contamination. There's a reason why this stuff is so cheap!

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