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Dr Sues wrote:Hi, just nosing around for gluten free grains. I know quinoa is labeled a “ pseudograin “ but I see conflicting thoughts about millet. Paleo folks seem to list it as a pseudograin, but other (more objective?) places call it a grain. Anyone know?
vegman wrote:I avoid gluten, and recently decided to avoid rice and wild rice due to arsenic
vegman wrote:According to FDA testing, wild rice contains about as much arsenic as true rice.
https://www.fda.gov/media/86074/download
Daydream wrote:vegman wrote:According to FDA testing, wild rice contains about as much arsenic as true rice.
https://www.fda.gov/media/86074/download
Oops! I stand corrected. Other websites have said that wild rice has no arsenic but that must be inaccurate.
JeffN wrote:Daydream wrote:vegman wrote:According to FDA testing, wild rice contains about as much arsenic as true rice.
https://www.fda.gov/media/86074/download
Oops! I stand corrected. Other websites have said that wild rice has no arsenic but that must be inaccurate.
All plants will have arsenic.
this quote is from John M. Duxbury, PhD, a professor of soil science and international agriculture at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y
“All plants pick up arsenic. Concentrations in leaves of plants are much higher than in grains of plants. Thus, leafy vegetables can contain higher levels of arsenic than rice, especially when they are grown on arsenic-contaminated soils. But because we eat a much lower volume of leafy greens compared to other kinds of foods, arsenic intake from this source is also low."
Now, this may be true for most Americans who barely eat any vegetables or greens (leaves). But what about us, who probably surpass the amount of vegetables most American eat in a week, each day (or meal).
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MikeyG wrote:In terms of arsenic in vegetables based on growing conditions, here's one study:
"As expected for a soil with high total As (see Table 1), the leafy greens grown on the orchard soil contained high As (as high as 10 mg/kg), whereas the low-As urban soil produced greens with As well below 1 mg/kg (Figure 2). Similar to the case for Pb uptake, the soil treatments had no statistically significant effect in either decreasing or increasing As in the greens. However, unlike Pb, the As concentrations in the leafy greens showed no tendency to correlate with tissue Al. The As PUFs for leafy greens, in the range of 0.03- 0.05, were much higher than those for Pb."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753078/
JeffN wrote:Now, this may be true for most Americans who barely eat any vegetables or greens (leaves). But what about us, who probably surpass the amount of vegetables most American eat in a week, each day (or meal).
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