We have all happened to include in our shopping, for pleasure or convenience, some packs of packaged bread to prepare hamburgers and hot dogs. In a French study carried out last year, however, small traces of pesticides used to grow wheat in these products emerged.
Go shopping and take care ofPower supply it is one of the most important aspects of everyday life. Sometimes, however, fatigue takes over, and for our meals we opt for comfortable burgers prepared with the pane that we already find packaged on supermarket shelves.
On the tables of Italians, after all, whether it is fresh or not, bread can never be missing! Attention, however, to the risks who run by consuming packaged foods too often. Here, in this regard, what were the results of one studio conducted by a French magazine on more than twenty types of this product.
The French study of packaged bread
To find out if there were residues of pesticides used for growing wheat, in 2021 the French magazine 60 million consumers he analyzed well 28 products of major brands distributed mostly in Franceincluding nine types of cereal sandwich buns, six bagel buns, three hot dog buns and and ten burger buns.
The results of this research revealed the presence of cypermethrin – substance contained in the herbicide considered irritating and harmful to our health – in the following products: “American sandwich with seven cereals” brand Harry’s; “Hot dog breads” Golden Batch; “Sesame bagles” of the brands U e Auchan; “Classic maxi burger of whole flour” and the “Maxi Burgers” always by Auchan.
Once the study is published, the journal 60 million consumers took to clarify that the values of these substances present in the products analyzed do not exceed in no case the limits permitted by law: “No residue exceeds the permitted limits; but this omnipresence is once again reminiscent of use too wide of pesticides “.
The previously cited research, however, caused two to spread as well Good news: in nobody of the products examined, mycotoxins caused by molds were detected; furthermore, the sesame sandwiches analyzed were all results look of traces of ethylene oxide.
Consume fresh products
It should be emphasized, once again, how of primary importance it is to consume daily fresh food.
Fresh bread, in addition to being very good, is part of our food culture; self homemadeperhaps with raw materials biologicaleven better!
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