China is the world’s largest exporter of food. This country uses innovative methods and techniques to get these products to global markets as quickly as possible and at the lowest cost. Not surprisingly, several food products suffer the consequences. Here’s a list of 8 Chinese foods that contain dangerous substances we should avoid.
1 – SOY SAUCE
The World Health Organization reports that this product is classified as carcinogenic. Soy sauce contains 4-methylimidazole (carcinogenic in mice and rats).
2 – GINGER
An investigation launched in 2013 found that the pesticide aldicarb, approved only for use on cotton, peanuts, roses, and sweet potatoes, was also being used on ginger. Farmers were applying it three to six times above the recommended dose.
3 – INDUSTRIAL SALT
Industrial salt is unfit for human consumption, yet industrial salt has been sold as table salt for 13 years! Industrial salt can cause mental and physical problems, problems with hypothyroidism, and reproductive system disorders.
4 – MUSHROOMS Mushroom
spraying uses chlorinating agents, anhydrous calcium chloride, sodium sulfite, and other dangerous preservatives.
5 – TILAPIA FISH
Tilapia is a farmed fish widely found in China. These fish are among the worst, most toxic, and unhealthiest fish you can encounter. A tilapia eats anything, comparable to a cleaner wrasse, and the fish farm is a small pool of water filled with waste where the fish live. This is one of the worst fish purchases you can make, and seafood producers in China are known to not even allow their children to eat the seafood they produce, which should make you cringe. 80% of tilapia comes from China.
6 – SHRIMP
To ensure the survival of the shrimp, farmers used unapproved antibiotics and chemicals. Thirty shrimp samples purchased in China were sent to a laboratory at the Institute for Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University. The results showed that antibiotics (enrofloxacin, chloramphenicol, and nitrofuranzone) were used in shrimp farming, which were banned in the United States and other countries due to their carcinogenic effects.
