Science of Cooking

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How to stop turmeric from killing people (www.economist.com)

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Missing from the article is: why are they adding led to spices? Is it simply to cut it with a cheaper, heavy material? Or as a product of the manufacturing process?

[–] voight@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

It can be from soil or processing for instance I think some cocoa in Nigeria when they still had leaded gasoline in like 2015-2017 was still tainted by the air