7 Chemical-Loaded Foods That Might Surprise You

Published on September 20, 2012 by admin   ·   No Comments

Dina Spector

Business Insider

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right? Not if they’re store-bought.

This month, Prevention magazine published a list of common grocery store foods that are doused in so many toxins and chemicals that experts and farmers wouldn’t dare eat them.

Here’s what they came up with:

1. Canned Tomatoes

• The natural acidity of tomatoes increases the rate that bisphenol-A —a chemical found in the lining of metal cans — enters food.

2. Corn-fed Beef

• Cows pumped with grains are lower in nutrients and higher in saturated fats than cows that are fed grass.

3. Microwave popcorn

• Microwaving causes chemicals found in the lining of popcorn bags to evaporate and leach into the product.

4. Nonorganic potatoes

• Conventional potatoes are sprayed with an arsenal of herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides that get absorbed into the flesh.

5. Farmed Salmon

• Salmon raised in densely-packed pens are often fed fish meal infused with toxic chemicals and antibiotics to combat unsanitary conditions.

 

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