In his book, Dr. Campbell talks
about the aflatoxin in peanut butter causing liver cancer.
However, if you are particularly concerned
about aflatoxins consider buying Arrowhead Mills Organic Peanut Butter, which claims to be completely aflatoxin - free.
Not exact matches
I have heard things
about dried coconut containing
aflatoxins, but I haven't been able to verify this with any published evidence.
Experts estimate that
aflatoxin - related crop losses cost American farmers
about $ 500 million each year.
IITA field trials show that the product can reduce
aflatoxin by
about 80 percent under certain conditions.
I think they are fantastic food but I have read so many things
about the risks of consuming nuts contaminated by
aflatoxin, a well known carcinogen, that I am getting very worried.
That's the direction I'm pushing, not perfection, but just awareness of problems, more research, and I've got
about 900 studies on OTA and 1,200 on
aflatoxin.
Although this isn't discussed in «Forks Over Knives,» Campbell spends a few pages of «The China Study» talking
about an enzyme responsible for metabolizing
aflatoxin — a lil» somethin' called «mixed function oxidase.»
On the point
about extremely high
aflatoxin to promote cancer, is it not a greater testament to the plant based diet that it was able to stop the cancer growth?
It's crazy how despite all the websites and blogs, like Dr. Axe, etc. going on
about the dangers of peanut butter over
aflatoxin, all of these very scary stories fail to mention the origin of this concern and that it's been resolved.
* A note
about pepper: Black pepper tends to be especially high in mold toxins, particularly
aflatoxin and ochratoxin A.
Dave Asprey: It's interesting that
about sixty percent of the mycotoxin that a cow eats ends up in casein and so when you eliminate casein and from dairy, you eliminate
aflatoxin from it.
The FDA established specific guidelines
about the amount of
aflatoxin that can be detected in grains and still be used in either animal feeds or human food products.
Diamond has had a history of recalls due to
aflatoxins, concerns
about Salmonella, and production issues at least since around 1999 - 2000, including a large recall in 2005, and many consumers have lost confidence in the company and the products they produce.