ARSENIC IN KIDS' CANDY: Popular Brands Loaded with Toxic Levels - No better time for your family to MAHA!
Shocking new tests from Healthy Florida First expose arsenic (a known carcinogen) in everyday Halloween/everyday treats. Safe yearly limits for children are TINY -- we're talking just 4-18 pieces per year for some favorites before exceeding safe thresholds.
🎯 Worst Offenders:
🚫Jolly Rancher Sour Apple (Hershey's): 540 ppb
🚫Tootsie Fruit Chew Lime: 570 ppb
🚫Nerds Grape (Ferrara): 380 ppb
🚫Skittles Original (Mars): 370 ppb
🚫Sour Patch Kids (Mondelēz): 470 ppb
🚨Risks? Increased cancer (lung, skin, bladder, kidney) + developmental harm in kids.
🍀Safer swaps: Annie’s, Smart Sweets, UNREAL, Yum Earth -- "Risk not identified."
Informed consent applies to food, too…
YIKES And those include some of my favorite flavors
I'm sorry 😭but I had to tell you. 🤨😂
Annie’s used to be an independent company. General Mills owns that brand now. Basically when large food companies buy small “clean” companies over time the ingredients will change or they use lesser quality sources for the ingredients. Dave’s bread was my go to bread. I don’t buy bread anymore, two years ago it was still the same as the original. I had read some versions had corn syrup added. Many chocolate brands that’s been around for a century have so little chocolate they can’t legally call it chocolate. Natural flavors can mean anything, including bugs. I could go on & on. Bottom line research the company. Just because you bought it recently doesn’t mean next time the ingredients won’t change. As far as cancer, research ingredients in body, hair products, makeup, household cleaners, spf, laundry detergent (look for laundry soap). America has the worst bad toxic ingredients than any other country.
Same with Olive oil & Maple syrup. 🤨
Exactly! Most honey in the store is cut with hydrolyzed corn syrup. Don’t buy “local” honey unless you know who’s selling it. I know a family (through friends) that sells honey in a larger city. They buy cheap honey and put it in cute bear honey bottles. It’s a good thing I’ve always been a pessimist, realist. I’m thankful I don’t eat any of that junk anymore.
oh good i just had a bag of sour patch kids last night
Investigate how arsenic got in there.
I need more information, I'll research it... but this is what my questions are... Is the arsenic put in the candy, or is it a by-product of another chemical reaction? Is it a bad type arsenic, like "Arsenic and old lace", or is it a chemical arsenic that isn't as deadly? Are there really limits... set up by who? also, who is "Healthy Florida First"? I don't live in Florida, don't know them. What was the test based on? what was tested? Why arsenic... why not cocaine, alcohol, or whatever else... what were they looking for? Why? Was this a study of just candy in Mexico, or just in Florida, or just in... where? Was this candy from all manufacturing facilities, or just one? Did they test Annies, Smart Sweets, UNREAL, Yum earth etc too? Who funded the research? Anyhow, I will research, but I do often wonder about these alarming stats. Too easy for them to catch fire and end up being something else.
I'll research it, yeah everyone says do your own research, but how do you know that the information you find online is the truth?
What I will do is research Healthy Florida first... see who funds it, who sponsors their pages or their work, if they have a list of CEO's or who's on staff and look at their bios to see what they believe or where they. have worked before, in case they have a bias. what else the say about food or whatever they research. How they do their research... if they get a wide range of, let's say jolly ranchers, that are distributed everywhere around the world? Or just in Florida? Or just in the US? After I exhaust Healthy Florida First, if I feel confident in their abilities, I will then research different types of arsenic. Is it created by a chemical reaction? Is the arsenic created deadly, benign, cancer causing, or what? Once I find enough information about arsenic from what seems to be unbiased sources... they don't buy/sell anything that the info will benefit from, they aren't a government agency (usually, sometimes I use them, but anymore I don't!), in food stuff, I like the smaller nutritionists or healing nutritionists, instead of a big corporation or influencer. Influencers have a lot to sell too. Again, I check bios, check out the people listed as working for them or heading the company, and whether there is conflicting information with other sites. I usually also read through the site to see if I can get a temperature for their leanings that can cloud their research.
After I research both of those, and if I feel comfortable moving on, I will then look at each candy type, the ingredients, and see how the arsenic was made or how it got in. Any responses from the companies regarding this accusation? I will also look at each company, where they manufacture, if there's different ingredients from different facilities or countries... plus their CEO's, their past press releases on similar things...
Anyhow, I just get obsessed. Especially when it comes to food. So much wrong info, and I spend way too much time poking around to see what's going on!!
This is just a synopsis of what I do. I could go into more detail, but it's ridiculous what I do when I get on a bunny trail like this!
Thx for the info fren.