Category: Food Processing

BPA and ways to avoid it

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WHAT IS BPA? Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins used in nearly every industry. BPA is a reproductive, developmental, and systemic toxicant (From: EPA). Environmental estrogens (xenoestrogens) are a diverse group of chemicals that mimic estrogenic actions. Bisphenol A […]

Carcinogenic arsenic is found in our food

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Have you ever wondered why so many people get cancer nowadays? Read on! FDA study detected inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen, at higher levels in chickens treated with the drug 3-Nitro® (Roxarsone) than in untreated chickens. This drug is also approved by FDA for weight gain (wonder if it is also making people fatter?). Pfizer […]

Flavors are added even to the “Not from concentrate” 100% orange juice

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Before I start, some trivia. Did you know Pepsi owns Tropicana Juice and Coke owns Minute Maid? Now back to business. Orange Juice producers make it sound like the process is pretty straight forward: collect oranges, squeeze the juice out of them, pour it into the containers and ship to the stores. Here is an […]

Sometime Monsanto loses

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I’ve discovered an interesting Federal Trade Commission document, dating back to 2007. (link to FTC.gov) Monsanto encouraged FTC to start an investigation into the “misleading advertizing and labeling practices” related to the rBST, a synthetic bovine growth hormone manufactured by Monsanto and approved by FDA to increase milk production. While Monsanto acknoledges that milk producers […]

Amish food quality review

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American mainstream culture considers Amish grown food to be something simple, wholesome, just off the 18th century pastoral image in a museum. Amish people live very simple life, dictated by “the order”, or Ordnung. Being a product of the past, Ordnung does not have any regulations or concerns about the use of pesticides and herbicides. […]

Water chlorination info

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Water chlorination has been one of the major disease prevention treatments of the 20th century. While very effective, this solution has its down sides. As per 1993 research, water chlorination produces various byproducts, such as chloroform, bromodichloromethane, chlorodibromomethane, and bromoform.  The trihalomethanes,  are carcinogenic in the liver, kidney, and/or intestine of rodents  (From : NIH). […]

Label reading 101

Let’s see what all of those confusing labels really mean. Note: there are numerous products on the market that show round green logos with some text inside. Some people mistake it with Organic logo; if you don’t read, it does look a little bit like the real Organic logo “Organic” with green circular USDA Certified […]

Irradiated foods on US plates

Many conventionally (non-organic) grown/processed veggies, fruits, meats and eggs are exposed to radiation to kill all bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc. (From: EPA). Alert: Radiation induces formation of carcinogen formaldehyde from carbohydrates (fructose, sucrose, glucose)! (From: FDA and NIH). Irradiation Indicator Logo is on the right: One Gray (Gy) is a relatively large amount of radiation. […]