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…
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.