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Kevin's avatar

I'd love to hear these numbers compared to some sort of baseline, to prioritize which things are more vs less dangerous. (Otherwise we get into binary "Everything is scary!" mode which just leads to paralysis)

E.g. I drink Almond Breeze milk. The cyanide levels are listed as, "Up to 143,700 µg/kg". Is that per kg of milk? Per kg of almonds? How does that compare to the background level of cyanide that a person ingests per day? Is there a level of cyanide ingestion low enough that you don't really need to worry about it?

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Juhi Nandwani's avatar

So insightful.. and scary. Would love to hear your recommendations for staples to include in our diets that are safer to consume!

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Mansi Hukmani's avatar

Next post incoming! For milks, I’d say elmhurst is my favorite.

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Sven's avatar

Great read! Do you know which Whole Foods sourdough bread it is? Pre-packaged/pre-sliced? SF-sourdough?

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Mansi Hukmani's avatar

this was conducted in the bay area, it is the pre-packaged one I believe that wholefoods bakes!

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Jennifer Zhou's avatar

most saad about the sourdough :(

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Mansi Hukmani's avatar

farmers market sourdough only from now on!

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