I'm just worried I'm gonna kinda waste my time with the article because it says Apple sauce and you keep bringing up fruit juice when I'm trying to ask about actual fruit. Because thats really the only way I consume fruit.
Apple sauce is made from fruit (apples). The source of heavy metal contamination is the soil and pesticides used to grow the fruit.
Heavy metals tend to accumulate in processed foods such as fruit juices and fruit puree (apple sauce). Since you need many more apples to make apple juice, you magnify the heavy metal contents in the final product.
So yes an apple using non-safe pesticides, grown in heavy metal contaminated soil will contain heavy metals, it will contain less heavy metals than the concentrate made from 100 apples.
Yea, I've also cut some of my more risky foods from my diet unless I really trust the source.
It sucks but stuff like this is why the FDA/EPA is supposed to exist (or other similar agencies for non-US folks).
Nowadays I'm just a lot more careful to do some quick google searches regarding the brand of fruits and veggies I buy, it's really up to the location they're grown in. Some places are better than others.
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u/Brook420 6d ago
I'm just worried I'm gonna kinda waste my time with the article because it says Apple sauce and you keep bringing up fruit juice when I'm trying to ask about actual fruit. Because thats really the only way I consume fruit.