I was very surprised when I got this email from Vani who publishes a blog called, Food Babe!
This is not the first time that I heard about high concentration of Roundup weed killer showing up in our packaged foods such as cheerios and many others. I decided to share.
Food Babe Post:
If you’re gluten-free or buy “chickpea” and “lentil” pastas…
I have some important new information for you.
The nonprofit group, Moms Across America, recently sent several gluten-free products to a lab to test for glyphosate (Roundup) residues.
Roundup is one of the most widely used weed killers in the world, and residues of it are ending up in food products on the shelf.
The only way we can find out which products it’s in is to individually test them.
It’s been found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Doritos…and hundreds more popular products.
Out of the new gluten-free products that Moms Across America had tested, 44 out of 46 samples were contaminated with Roundup.
Banza pasta (which is made from chickpeas and isn’t organic) had alarming levels.
According to Moms Across America, Banza pasta had MORE glyphosate than any food the lab has EVER tested: 2,963 ppb
To give you an idea of how much this is, only 10 ppb is the “acceptable threshold” for glyphosate residues in Europe.
They also found high levels in:
- Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose Flour (gluten-free)
- Flax4Life Chocolate Brownies
- Pamela’s Figgies and Jammies Cookies
- Kind Kids Chewy Chocolate Chip Bars
This is highly concerning because Roundup is strongly linked to cancer.
It also may negatively affect fertility.
And increasing Roundup use is correlated with the rise in celiac disease.
Could all of the Roundup in our food be why celiac disease is increasing? What about autoimmune diseases? Or cancer?
Roundup doesn’t just wash off or cook out of your food. It’s absorbed into the flesh of the food, where it remains until we eat it. This is what really makes it so rampant. It’s in just about everything.
In the meantime, it’s safest to choose organic food because at least it isn’t sprayed directly with Roundup and is typically less contaminated.
Share this news with your friends who might be buying Banza pasta.
You can share on Instagram, Facebook, or TikTok, or forward this email to them.
It’s time that everyone takes this seriously! We can’t sit back and continue letting them poison our food.
Xo,
Vani
Food Babe
P.O. Box 31521 Charlotte, NC 28231
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“When studying the prevalence of glyphosate in certain foods, the numbers can be shocking. For example, one study from the Environmental Working Group revealed that glyphosate was present in more than 95% of popular oat-based food samples. A follow-up study identified cereals targeting children as some of the most glyphosate-contaminated food products. It measured the levels in parts per billion (ppb) and worked with a benchmark for children’s consumption of glyphosate of 160 ppb.”
The most glyphosate-contaminated products were:
- Honey Nut Cheerios Medley Crunch (833 ppb)
- Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars, Maple Brown Sugar (566 ppb)
- Nature Valley Granola Cups, Almond Butter (529 ppb)
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Cheerios (400 ppb)
- Nature Valley Baked Oat Bites (389 ppb)
- Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars, Oats and Honey (320 ppb)
- Nature Valley Crunchy Granola Bars, Peanut Butter (312 ppb)
- Nature Valley Granola Cups, Peanut Butter Chocolate (297 ppb)
- Nature Valley Fruit & Nut Chewy Trail Mix Granola Bars, Dark Chocolate Cherry (275 ppb)
- Nature Valley Protein Granola, Oats and Dark Chocolate (261 ppb)
- Multi Grain Cheerios (216 ppb)
- Nature Valley Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares, Blueberry (206 ppb)
- Fiber One Soft-Baked Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin (204 ppb)
- Nature Valley Granola, Peanut Butter Creamy & Crunchy (198 ppb)
- Nature Valley Biscuits with Almond Butter (194 ppb)
I would love to know your thoughts. Please leave a comment.
