Pub med paper saying that even Table Salt has added aluminum.
Cheese also.
Non dairy creamers also
Watch out for ready made pancakes, waffles (frozen or not), plus BAKING POWDER: they are loaded with aluminum.
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PICKLES may contain a significant level of aluminum.
Some manufacturers add alum, an aluminum salt such as aluminum sulfate or potassium aluminum sulfate, during the pickling process to add firmness and crispness to the pickles.
You can avoid ingesting aluminum by choosing pickles that do not contain alum.
However, a variety of other products that you use daily, including DEODORANTS and ANTIACID MEDICATIONS, also contain aluminum salts, increasing your exposure.
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The results showed that high aluminium levels were found in:
steamed bread/bun/cake (mean: 100 – 320 mg/kg),
some bakery products such as muffin (mean: 250 mg/kg),
pancake/waffle (mean: 160 mg/kg),
coconut tart (mean: 120 mg/kg)
and cake (mean: 91 mg/kg)
, and jellyfish (ready-to-eat form) (mean: 1200 mg/kg).
The results demonstrated that aluminium-containing food additives have been widely used in such products.
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There have been reports about high levels of aluminium being detected in various food products such as:
steamed bread/bun/cake,
bakery products (e.g. muffin, cake and pancake),
fried snacks,
leavening product,
jellyfish and mung bean vermicelli.
The high levels of aluminium were probably due to the use of aluminium-containing food additives as FIRMING agent, RAISING agent or STABILIZER in food.
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One of the papers above state that:
"Aluminium-containing food additives have been used in food processing for over a century, as firming agent, raising agent, stabiliser, anticaking agent and colouring matter, etc....
.... and some are permitted to be used in food in many countries such as the United States (US), the European Union (EU), Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Mainland China, etc.
Some aluminium-containing food additives have been included in the Codex General Standard for Food Additives.
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Continuing:
"Apart from dietary source, air, the use of cosmetic and toiletry products such as antiperspirants, ...
....MEDICINES may also contribute to aluminium exposure.
Aluminium from air and the use of cosmetic and toiletry products constituted a minor source of exposure.
The aluminium-containing medications such as ANTIACIDS, PHOSPHATE-binders and buffered ANALGESICS may lead to long-term exposure.
For an individual who regularly ingests aluminium-containing MEDICATIONS for long term, exposure to aluminium from medication could be much higher than that from the diet.
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Continuing:
" It has been reported that aluminium, once absorbed, is distributed in most organs within the body of the experimental animals, with accumulation at high dose mainly in bone.
Furthermore, aluminium concentrations are increased in blood and selected tissues such as brain, bone, muscle, kidney and lung of human after ingestion or inhalation of aluminium compounds.
Aluminium is excreted mainly via the route of faeces and the urine in both experimental animals and human.
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Toxicity:
"Soluble aluminium compounds have demonstrated reproductive toxicity (including histopathological changes in the testes and effect on gestation length)
.... and developmental toxicity (including increased pup mortality, decreased growth, delayed maturation, and impaired neurodevelopment) in experimental animals.
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"The main source of exposure to aluminium for the general population is food, which contributed to more than 95% of total exposure, particularly through foods added with aluminium-containing food additives, ...
.....but the intake can be increased 10 to 100 times through the use of aluminium-containing medicinal products such as antacids"
------------- CEREALS IN THE UK CONTAMINATED!
"In dietary exposures studies in Mainland China and the UK, cereals and cereal products were found to be the main dietary sources of aluminium,
which contributed 79.5% and 49% of total dietary exposures, respectively.
The relatively high aluminium intake from the CEREAL products might be attributed to the use of aluminium-containing food additives."
"Overseas report revealed that high levels of aluminium were found in SOYA-based formulae..
.... and dietary exposure to aluminium was expected to be very high, up to 1 mg/kg bw/day, for INFANTS fed on SOYA-based FORMULA."
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Page 29 of the report says compares the exposure of aluminum for each country...
France, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, the USA, Germany, Sweden, mainland China...
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Buy a good 100% grassfed non processed organic cheese and you'll be fine. They dont add any additives to that. I like Organic Valley grassmilk cheddar the best and I eat heaps of it.
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