Kellogg’s Kashi Cereal Tests Positive for Probable Human Carcinogen and GMOs

[erowe1]

Anyone who thinks a synthetic version of amygdalin is better than the one found in an organic apricot pit needs to take a class in common sense.

Why is that?

 

[donnay]

Why is that?

Because the raw unmolested forms have been used as a natural medicine for thousands of years--do the research.

 

[Zippyjuan]

I took two University courses in chemistry and I agree with donnay on most of these issues. NaCl table salt is not the same as sea salt because sea salt contains important micronutrients. Ingredients found naturally in foods are found in those foods for a reason, and the reaction your body has may be altered by a synthesis of multiple ingredients found in it's natural form as compared to a single ingredient produced in a lab.

We have been through it before but the "trace elements" of "important minerals" (including lead, cadmium, uranium, mercury, plutonium and other toxins) are of such small quantities that they are dietarily insignificant. Except perhaps iron (which gives it the pink color). Both table salt or mined salt (like Himalayan "sea" salt") or sea salt are all 97- 99% sodium (40%) and chloride (60%). The rest are mostly at amounts of less than one part per billion. http://themeadow.com/pages/minerals-in-himalayan-pink-salt-spectral-analysis The "benefits" of the trace minerals is pure marketing. Table salt will have more iodine.

If one part per trillion of glyphosate is dangerious, sea salt must be killing millions.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Because the raw unmolested forms have been used as a natural medicine for thousands of years--do the research.

"Natural" does not always mean good for you. Uranium is 100% natural but I don't recommend eating large amounts of it. Or arsenic or hundreds of other compounds. But again, dosage matters. The amounts in Kashi or Himalayan Salt are too small to worry about.