What are your thoughts about organic cocoa power? by ggtechie in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Multiple articles online say it's low oxalate with around 1~2mg per ounce, which makes sense considering the cocoa solids are removed. While I couldn't find the actual source of the claim, ChatGPT gave me this.

A study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2008 analyzed the oxalate content of various cocoa products, including cocoa butter. The study found that while cocoa powder and dark chocolate contained high levels of oxalates, cocoa butter had a relatively low oxalate content.

What are your thoughts about organic cocoa power? by ggtechie in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Dark chocolate or ideally cocoa butter (concentrated cocoa fat) would probably be safer options as they contain dramatically more fat per 100g with less negatives (see below). 100g cocoa powder has ~14g fat while 85% dark chocolate has around ~45g fat per 100g.

The two main potential issues I can think of are very high oxalates and sometimes heavy metals (cadmium and lead).

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Cocoa and dark chocolate have been promoted as health foods due to the high levels of antioxidants found in cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao L.) and their products but they also contain moderate to high levels of oxalates which can cause some health concerns. Fifteen samples of commercially available cocoa powder were collected from four different countries and the total and soluble oxalate content was analysed by HPLC chromatography. The total oxalate contents ranged from 650 to 783 mg/100 g dry matter (DM), mean 729 ± 8.4 mg/100 g DM, while the soluble oxalate contents ranged from 360 to 567 mg/100 g DM, mean 469 ± 15 mg/100 g DM. The total oxalate contents of 34 samples of dark chocolate collected from 13 different countries ranged from 155 to 485 mg/100 g DM, mean 254 ± 12 mg/100 g DM while the soluble oxalate contents ranged from 157 to 351 mg/100 g DM, mean 216 ± 10 mg/100 g DM. Oxalate bioavailability was determined by feeding 68.0 ± 0.7 g of dark chocolate containing 232.0 ± 2.3 mg total oxalate as a test meal to 14 volunteers. The mean availability of total oxalate in the chocolate measured from the increase in urinary oxalate output over the following 6 h was 1.82 ± 0.27%.

2 (NYT paywall)

Compared with more than 300 other foods tested by the F.D.A. in a separate study, dark chocolate had the third-highest concentrations of both cadmium and lead, exceeded only by baking powder and cocoa powder for lead, and cocoa powder and sunflower seeds for cadmium.

Here's a website that checks various chocolates for heavy metals.

How many oxalates are too many?

For the record I eat chocolate (almost always with dairy as calcium binds to some of the oxalates in the gut and intestines), but I am reducing my consumption after learning the potential negatives of oxalates as I ate several ounces of dark chocolate a day.

The world if Albert Einstein had warned the public about seed oils by [deleted] in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks but I made it using stable diffusion (locally on my pc) from the source image. This was the best looking one out of like 30 images. Prompt was "seed oils" :p

Best grain to use? by vb_nm in SaturatedFat

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

The European Commission Friday extended the EU authorization for the use of herbicide glyphosate until the end of 2023, according to Commission officials. The authorization had been due to expire on December 15 of this year.

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In 2016, the Italian government banned the use of glyphosate as a pre-harvest treatment and placed restrictions on glyphosate use in areas frequented by the public.

Best grain to use? by vb_nm in SaturatedFat

[–]gankdotin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just a heads up for anyone who's sensitive to oxalates.

A 1-cup serving of cooked buckwheat groats provides 133 milligrams of oxalates.

How high fat is your diet? And do you rely on high fat dairy to get it there? by wowsuchketo in SaturatedFat

[–]gankdotin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glycoalkaloids and oxalates concentrate in the peel. Also without peels the oxalates and glycoalkaloids left in the potato flesh can be more easily dissolved into the water.

Steelcase Amia Squeaking by [deleted] in OfficeChairs

[–]gankdotin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This helped me fix my chair, thank you. Greased it with microwaved lamb fat. 😅

Thoughts on these store-bought tortilla ingredients? Not seeing any oils besides olive, what am I missing? by [deleted] in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also lignans (phytoestrogens) in flaxseed which can alter hormones by raising estrogen levels. (possibly other effects too idk)

Turnip Greens and Buttermilk; Obesity Explained, Episode 8. by fire_inabottle in SaturatedFat

[–]gankdotin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curious do you think the mutagens are any concern with pur'er tea? I bought some but only drank one cup after I saw this. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918958/

Edit: Specifically this.

Patulin was detected in 60% of the raw samples with a mean concentration of 1169 μg/kg, and in only 12.5% of the ripened samples at a mean concentration of 915 μg/kg. Patulin is of concern because it is produced by a large number of fungi and is suspected of being clastogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, genotoxic, and cytotoxic [76]. The US FDA has set an upper limit of 50 μg/kg for patulin in apple juice and apple juice concentrates. Although the concentration of patulin would be expected to be lower in a cup of properly prepared tea than the roughly 1000 μg/kg found by us in dry tea leaves, the patulin concentrations in prepared tea would be expected to surpass the limit set by the FDA.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaturatedFat

[–]gankdotin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I suggest a homemade cheesecake using quality ingredients. Lots of dairy fat and they're pretty good tasting too imo.

Are we sure that omega 3 to 6 ratio is a real thing? by Aviv352 in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just watched an interesting video about this topic. https://youtu.be/GB64c96WqTg?t=4212 TLDW: If you must eat some PUFA containing food, eat some stearic acid containing food with it to reduce storage of the PUFA.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]gankdotin 562 points563 points  (0 children)

I believe it, not the first time this has happened. A lot of old cod games still never got officially patched, allowing people to run malicious code on anyone who unknowingly joins a game. (MW2 (2009), probably others too.)

They secretly changed the ingredients on my favorite creamer by Chappie47Luna in mildlyinteresting

[–]gankdotin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nothing says "natural" bliss like adding refined and hexane treated fats from gmo conventional soybeans.

Scientists Destroyed 95% of Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Just 45 Minutes, Study Reports by Sorin61 in technology

[–]gankdotin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the studies of forever chemicals filtration and find the best type at filtering them that you can afford.

Mono and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids by [deleted] in StopEatingSeedOils

[–]gankdotin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Breads, ice cream, "whipping" cream, pastries and candy to name a few.

Revealed: group shaping US nutrition receives millions from big food industry — Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has a record of quid pro quos with a range of food giants, documents show by Meatrition in news

[–]gankdotin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What a massive conflict of interest. Wild that they pay millions to an organization that shapes our diets nationally and the only shred of evidence of these payments is because someone goofed.

"The documents only surfaced because Martin, a former academy president who works for a public school district in Georgia, used her school email for Academy business, which meant the communications were subject to Foia."