Food's Forklore

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 3. Forklore: Never eat pork away from home

            - Undercooked pork can contain a parasite called trichinosis (also found in pork, bear, rat, fox, dog, wolf, horse, seal, or walrus)

4. Forklore: Honey in baby formula is a safe natural sweetener

            -Botulinum spres are found in honey

            -Adults who eat these spores are almost never affected

            -Infants eat spores the spores can germinate in their immature gastrointestinal tracts (SIDS)

5. Forklore: Only certain people cry when cutting onions

            -only people with eyes will cry so everyone

            - sulfur are absorbed by the onion in the soil

            -Sulfenic acid are released when the onions cells are broken (Lachrymators)

            - Lachrymators combine with water to form sulfuric acid

            - The eye produce tears to wash the acid out of your eye.

6.  Forklore: Refine sugar is empty calories and poisons the body

            - Carbohydrates causes obesity and insulin resistance in the United States

            -It’s empty calories, and may influence insulin resistance however it is certainly NOT poisonous. (At normal doses)

7. Forklore: You can get high on nutmeg

            -Yes, nutmeg contains a hallucinogenic compound called myristicin

8. Garlin will protect you from disease

            -Garlic was worshipped by the ancient Egyptians, chewed by greek Olympian athletes and thought to be essential for keeping Vampires (mosquitos) at bay.

            -Scientists have identified a potent antimicrobial ingredient in garlic call Allicin

            -Allicin is also protective in cardiovascular disease

9: Forklore: Brown eggs are more nutritious than white eggs

            -No, white leghorn chickens lay whites eggs

            -Brown eggs are breeds such as barred Rock and Rhode Island Red

10: Eating raw oysters has strong aphrodisiac effects

            -Oysters contain 2 unusual amino acids, D-aspartic acid (D-ASP) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). These amino acids can cause increased production of testerone. (Ans: maybe)

11: Forklore: Irradiate foods contain residual radioactivity

            -No

            -Ionizing radiation kills bacteria and parasites that would otherwise cause foodborne disease but it passes though the food

12 Forklore: Brown rice is more nutritious than white polished rice

            -Yes

            -Brown rice contains the bran and germ layers, which are rich in nutrients

            -White rice is milled and polished so these layers and nutrients are removed

13: ForkLore: Kosher salt has been blessed by a rabbi

            -Nonsense

14 Forklore: Pasteurizing milk destroys all the vitamins, calcium, phosphorous and enzymes

            -Nonsense

           

15 Forklore: Green potatoes can be poisonous

            -When potatoes are exposed to sunlight they produce poisonous compounds called alka loids

            -Store potatoes in the dark, and cut away green areas

16: Forklore: Cooking meat on a BBQ causes the formation of carcinogens

            -YES

            -no clear evidence BBQ meats cause cancer

17 Forklore: Chocolate is a health food

            -No

            -Chocolate does contain antioxidant but unclear on its effect

18 Forklore: drinking gin prevents malaria

            -NO

19 Forklore: Drinking red wine prevents heart attack

            -Don’t know for sure