Pass the stuffing!

This article kind of reminds me of how I felt when I learned about dust mites and the "friendly bacteria" in cheese and yogurt...

Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and potatoes expose you to a myriad of Mother Nature’s finest carcinogens. They contain heterocyclic amines, acrylamide, ethyl alcohol, benzo(a)pyrene and ethyl carbamate. Add to that the furan derivatives, furfural, dihydrazines, d-limonene, psoralens, quercetin glycosides and safrole, not to mention caffeic acid. Umm, caffeic acid.

If you think you can escape exposure to these so called toxins by sticking to a simple tossed-green salad topped with a splash of basil-mustard vinaigrette, think again. You’ll then be dealing with allyl isothiocyanate, estragole, methyl eugenol and caffeic acid. A buttered roll will add acetaldehyde, benzene, ethyl alcohol, benzo(a)pyrene, ethyl carbamate, furan derivatives and furfural to the mix. Broccoli spears mean allyl isothiocyanate.  Carrot sticks equal aniline and that darn caffeic acid (again!). Cherry tomatoes offer benzaldehyde, caffeic acid, hydrogen peroxide and quercetin glycosides, just as God intended.

 

You know, what we really need to do is start jacking our food with drugs, to head off this kind of, uh, chemical interference. /SARC

 

Cavemen were eating charred rabbit since before there were product labels, and here we all are, in abundance now.

 

A proper meal isn't worth the trouble, if you don't risk full cardiac arrest with each bite and macrobiotic is for fairies.  Eat hearty this Christmas, before big nanny starts doling out the portions.

Comments

[Bob Devine]

All that effort to get to the two paragraphs that mean something. The last two. Those words in one way or another have summed up my whole philosophy on food and unfortunately once in a while drink for as long as I can remember.(except the big nanny part)

Only three more sleeps till the big day so here is a big MERRY CHRISTMAS HUG TO EVERYONE. I will toast you at supper time on Christmas day.

[Farmer Joe]

Damn the torpedoes! I'm an extra gravy on everything kind of guy.