Chickpeas -- only eat organic. This has the highest amount of Roundup! Check your hummus labels too & make sure it is organic! I find organic chickpeas at Trader Joes for 99 cents!
Peanut butter is another item you should only eat if organic!
Chickpeas -- only eat organic. This has the highest amount of Roundup! Check your hummus labels too & make sure it is organic! I find organic chickpeas at Trader Joes for 99 cents!
Peanut butter is another item you should only eat if organic!
Bonus points for flagging peanuts which are rotation crop for cotton that's technically 'not a food' crop so it can have more lethal chemical applications. Next season the peanuts grow in the hyper toxic soil and instead of drawing nutrients they are steeped in toxins.
I didn't know that about peanuts. They used to say a similar thing about cottonseed oil. Peanuts have another problem, which is the toxic mold, aflatoxin. Which also is supposedly carcinogenic. I wonder if it is also hallucinogenic--I haven't eaten regular peanut butter for decades, but sometimes, but not always, after I eat Reese's peanut butter cups I tend to have nightmares.
For Gods sake!! Really?? I had no idea!! My boys eat PB like itтАЩs going out of style!! Does that happen with organic peanuts as well?? I am donating our unopened jars and bought Organic. I wonder now if I should limit it to once a week or so. Well, looks like I have some research to do. Thank you for the heads up.
Ugh. I thought they were protected due to shell. Yikes! It should be illegal! I have 4 teen boys eating me out of my house right now. I get тАЬnaturalтАЭ no GMO big jars of course but now won't be able to allow it. I'm filling them with toxins. It just makes me so angry!
About a decade ago activists got 1 million signatures at FDA to require GMO ingredients be labeled & put Prop37 on the ballot in California to require gmo labeling.
FDA deleted the million signatures from their site & Industry spent $35 million to defeat Prop37 so consumer group created Non-GMO labels. This is NOT the same as organic it does not mean no chemicals are used in growing only that the seeds are not genetically engineered.
Once consumers embraced the Non-GMO label big food started adding the label to products that do NOT have gmo crop equivalent to suggest to consumers it is like organic when it's not. There is NO Legal definition for "NATURAL" in food it's a marketing term not a disclosure.
The entire American system is as toxic as our foods and consumers health takes a back seat to profiteers. You need to be flippin Sherlock Holmes to find toxic ingredients. We are ruled by criminals and eat ^%$# is prevailing policy.
Yes Bill Gates wants the entire world swallowing their patent protected products from cradle to grave & push idiotic ideas under the guise of feeding the world. Irony is currently there's more nutrition in the average bug than Monsanto-Gates Big Ag packaged crap on store shelves.
Yeah, I know the difference between organic and GMO. I just didn't know peanuts were that toxic. I wrongly assumed the shell protected the peanut. I however did not know the rest Of the story. FDA has always been rotten! Thanks for sharing.
Maybe not in total roundup residue, but I believe conventional potatoes still come out #1 for the most herbicides and pesticides applied per season. And organic potatoes are real hard to find.
EWG publishes a yearly guide to pesticide intensity and potatoes have never made the list but my own bias is to be most wary of foods that grow in toxic soil. Here in NYC organic potatoes are almost everywhere including the farmers markets, Trader Joe, Whole Foods and local markets and they are super easy to grow if you have any yard at all.
That potato availability is great for northeast folks. I'm in the northern Rocky mountains, and conventional production in Idaho, eastern Washington, Utah, Dakota dominates the markets. I was a weekly vendor at 4 farmers markets, organic potatoes were as scarce as hen's teeth. They never penciled/sold.
Consider conventional potato culture-before planting the ground is fumigated to a depth of 12-18 inches, they are sprayed with fungicides while growing, then sprayed again before harvest to kill weedy competition, and finally sprayed with another chemical to retard sprouting/rot after harvest.
Here's a list of 35 pesticide residues found on spuds by the USDA Pesticide Data Program that EWG relies on.
The former chair of the National Organic Standards Board, Jeff Moyer, said he's talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. Ditto for me.
Soy is the top gmo crop with over 90% of US acreage. Unless it's fermented like soy sauce I wouldn't feed it to my dog even as organic and the tofu products are even worse. Before WWII soy was grown for animal bedding and Nazi science stripped the odor for processing filler. I consider the marketing of soy as a healthful food & vegan staple on par with marketing campaign for safe & effective mRNA jabs.
Organic is better but they are very different. Almonds are tree nuts that grow with a very thick shell so they are naturally protected unlike peanuts that are tubers and spend their entire growing in toxic soil.
That said the big nut producers do fumigate the harvested nuts so there is a trace residue that is left between harvest and packaging. In the shells is more protected like an orange is more protected than a strawberry.
It's never good to eat toxins but conventional peanuts are about as toxic as real food gets..
Love to see a study for that including the funders because even mainstream folks like Harvard recognize the anti-inflammatory role of nuts. It's not as though there is more research I miss than I can see but this hit on almonds is a new one. Almonds are also a fantastic source of calcium especially important for folks who avoid dairy.
Chickpeas -- only eat organic. This has the highest amount of Roundup! Check your hummus labels too & make sure it is organic! I find organic chickpeas at Trader Joes for 99 cents!
Peanut butter is another item you should only eat if organic!
Bonus points for flagging peanuts which are rotation crop for cotton that's technically 'not a food' crop so it can have more lethal chemical applications. Next season the peanuts grow in the hyper toxic soil and instead of drawing nutrients they are steeped in toxins.
I didn't know that about peanuts. They used to say a similar thing about cottonseed oil. Peanuts have another problem, which is the toxic mold, aflatoxin. Which also is supposedly carcinogenic. I wonder if it is also hallucinogenic--I haven't eaten regular peanut butter for decades, but sometimes, but not always, after I eat Reese's peanut butter cups I tend to have nightmares.
Almond Butter is a great sub for peanut better.
For Gods sake!! Really?? I had no idea!! My boys eat PB like itтАЩs going out of style!! Does that happen with organic peanuts as well?? I am donating our unopened jars and bought Organic. I wonder now if I should limit it to once a week or so. Well, looks like I have some research to do. Thank you for the heads up.
The chocolate???
Ugh. I thought they were protected due to shell. Yikes! It should be illegal! I have 4 teen boys eating me out of my house right now. I get тАЬnaturalтАЭ no GMO big jars of course but now won't be able to allow it. I'm filling them with toxins. It just makes me so angry!
About a decade ago activists got 1 million signatures at FDA to require GMO ingredients be labeled & put Prop37 on the ballot in California to require gmo labeling.
FDA deleted the million signatures from their site & Industry spent $35 million to defeat Prop37 so consumer group created Non-GMO labels. This is NOT the same as organic it does not mean no chemicals are used in growing only that the seeds are not genetically engineered.
https://www.nongmoproject.org/product-verification/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220208035720/https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/fda-deletes-1-million-signatures-gmo-labeling-campaign
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2012/10/24/influence-explored-big-ag-lobbies-against-prop-37-in-california/
Once consumers embraced the Non-GMO label big food started adding the label to products that do NOT have gmo crop equivalent to suggest to consumers it is like organic when it's not. There is NO Legal definition for "NATURAL" in food it's a marketing term not a disclosure.
The entire American system is as toxic as our foods and consumers health takes a back seat to profiteers. You need to be flippin Sherlock Holmes to find toxic ingredients. We are ruled by criminals and eat ^%$# is prevailing policy.
eat ^%$# but soon we will be expected to eat bugs.
Yes Bill Gates wants the entire world swallowing their patent protected products from cradle to grave & push idiotic ideas under the guise of feeding the world. Irony is currently there's more nutrition in the average bug than Monsanto-Gates Big Ag packaged crap on store shelves.
Yeah, I know the difference between organic and GMO. I just didn't know peanuts were that toxic. I wrongly assumed the shell protected the peanut. I however did not know the rest Of the story. FDA has always been rotten! Thanks for sharing.
Maybe not in total roundup residue, but I believe conventional potatoes still come out #1 for the most herbicides and pesticides applied per season. And organic potatoes are real hard to find.
EWG publishes a yearly guide to pesticide intensity and potatoes have never made the list but my own bias is to be most wary of foods that grow in toxic soil. Here in NYC organic potatoes are almost everywhere including the farmers markets, Trader Joe, Whole Foods and local markets and they are super easy to grow if you have any yard at all.
oops the link https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/five-lesser-known-foods-high-in-pesticides.php
That potato availability is great for northeast folks. I'm in the northern Rocky mountains, and conventional production in Idaho, eastern Washington, Utah, Dakota dominates the markets. I was a weekly vendor at 4 farmers markets, organic potatoes were as scarce as hen's teeth. They never penciled/sold.
Consider conventional potato culture-before planting the ground is fumigated to a depth of 12-18 inches, they are sprayed with fungicides while growing, then sprayed again before harvest to kill weedy competition, and finally sprayed with another chemical to retard sprouting/rot after harvest.
Here's a list of 35 pesticide residues found on spuds by the USDA Pesticide Data Program that EWG relies on.
https://www.whatsonmyfood.org/food.jsp?food=PO
The former chair of the National Organic Standards Board, Jeff Moyer, said he's talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. Ditto for me.
Excellent update and link.. always appreciate learning more, thanks!! :~)
Good point!
Soy - same deal. Only eat organic soy.
Soy is the top gmo crop with over 90% of US acreage. Unless it's fermented like soy sauce I wouldn't feed it to my dog even as organic and the tofu products are even worse. Before WWII soy was grown for animal bedding and Nazi science stripped the odor for processing filler. I consider the marketing of soy as a healthful food & vegan staple on par with marketing campaign for safe & effective mRNA jabs.
Miso is the only fermented soy I consume.
Does that apply to almond butter as well?
Organic is better but they are very different. Almonds are tree nuts that grow with a very thick shell so they are naturally protected unlike peanuts that are tubers and spend their entire growing in toxic soil.
That said the big nut producers do fumigate the harvested nuts so there is a trace residue that is left between harvest and packaging. In the shells is more protected like an orange is more protected than a strawberry.
It's never good to eat toxins but conventional peanuts are about as toxic as real food gets..
Almonds are very high in Omega 6 and definitely an inflammatory food.
Love to see a study for that including the funders because even mainstream folks like Harvard recognize the anti-inflammatory role of nuts. It's not as though there is more research I miss than I can see but this hit on almonds is a new one. Almonds are also a fantastic source of calcium especially important for folks who avoid dairy.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/foods-that-fight-inflammation