Little Arsenic With Your Juice?

pk · 12-01-2011, 11:51 AM

Toxic Levels of Arsenic Found in Popular Juice Brands

Arsenic has long been recognized as a poison and a contaminant in drinking water, but now concerns are growing about arsenic in foods, especially in fruit juices that are a mainstay for children.

READ FULL STORY HERE:Arsenic Found in Popular Juice Brands | Yahoo! Health

pk · 12-01-2011, 11:54 AM

Arsenic? In our Juice?

I shudder when I think how much my children as babies drank apple juice when they were growing and developing.

We still are all big juice drinkers here! Mostly OJ thank goodnes but still apple and grape juice?

Guess it's totally time to dust of the juicer and make our own. Or to be safe do we have to grow our own fruit too? geez

dgridley · 12-01-2011, 03:17 PM

Here's a video:

Looking for arsenic in my apple juice - YouTube

Blue Baboon · 12-01-2011, 05:42 PM

Apples are one of the worst kinds of produce with pesticides on. Makes you wonder what goes in the juice.

I always wash my apples with soap and water.

pk · 12-01-2011, 05:54 PM

I do believe that apple juice from the store will be my last choice of juice from now on. My daughter will be very disappointed as she loves it. I do have a good juicer and I am going to get it out and start making juice. That should please her. Can't go without it so guess it's time to make our own.

Blue Baboon · 12-01-2011, 08:34 PM

You should make a nice cinnamon apple. That would be tasty cold or warm.

dgridley · 12-01-2011, 09:42 PM

Let us not forget the arsenic in lettuce..

pk · 12-02-2011, 09:15 AM

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You should make a nice cinnamon apple. That would be tasty cold or warm.

Oh yes, that sounds really good.

Wish I still had my own apple trees.

Blue Baboon · 12-02-2011, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by dgridley

Let us not forget the arsenic in lettuce..

Nah, I prefer e. coli with mine.

dgridley · 12-02-2011, 01:43 PM

e. coli instead of potatoes anytime!

pk · 12-02-2011, 08:49 PM

Pretty soon I think we will all have to find a safer way to eat food.

Blue Baboon · 12-03-2011, 10:54 AM

Between all the chemical additives, pesticides, herbicides, bacteria, hormones and genetically modified foods, there isn't much left to eat. And they wonder why so many people get sick or die.

dgridley · 12-03-2011, 01:02 PM

Lobbyists are to blame in large part..

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Originally Posted by Blue Baboon

Between all the chemical additives, pesticides, herbicides, bacteria, hormones and genetically modified foods, there isn't much left to eat. And they wonder why so many people get sick or die.

**MrKhay** · 12-12-2011, 03:53 PM

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Originally Posted by pk

Pretty soon I think we will all have to find a safer way to eat food.

oh, um, no duh!

**MrKhay** · 12-12-2011, 04:01 PM

Most of that arsenic was inorganic arsenic, a known carcinogen. Inorganic means it was put there from outside of nature. An additive.
One in four samples had lead levels higher than the FDA’s bottled-water limit of 5 ppb. As with arsenic, no federal limit exists for lead in juice.

The article doesn't declare whether the juice is domestic, or imported...like from China. It's probably from China. One way or another, The Chinese are looking to take us down!