/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16518793
Eat more beef
Less fish

>>16518793
Mercury can be almost entirely avoided without worry if you take effort into sourcing high quality fish. If you're getting your salmon from a lake, and buying middle or higher shelf deens, then you'll never have to worry about mercury bioaccumulation.

>Mercury makes fish bigger, stronger, longer-lived predators
Why would I want to avoid it?

>>16518855
I tried the beef thing. It felt better than my old diet that was heavy on the pasta and bread, but after a while it sat like a rock in my stomach.
My current diet of fish/dairy/leafy greens has me feeling great. I'm making good gains at the gym.
>>16518859
I get portuguese deenz, pic related.
As for salmon I get the whole foods fillets of sockeye.
Interesting advice. I initially assumed all fish would have the same mercury since the ocean is all one big pond, but after a little digging I found that there can be a big difference between oceans. Atlantic salmon for instance has some 10x the amount of mercury than pacific.

I eat herring from the Baltic Sea. Addictive and feels good. Also cheap.

>>16518793
It's a myth. I also prohibited my family from getting vaccinated. Isn't that awesome?

>>16519133
wow dude so funny I nearly fell out of my chair

>>16518793
*Impossible burger blocks your path*
take the bug pill desu; the great reset awaits

>>16518888
Based Quad poster of truth
Just eat loads of shark, the fuck is mother nature gonna do to you? Make you heavy? That's what the meat is for!

>>16518888
Checked. Gonna crack a thermometer and make some mercury supplements.

>>16518793
Foods from the alum family and the brassica family tend to be high in chelating agents which are generally good for helping Mercury out of your system. Cilantro may also be beneficial for the same reason. Basically, eat your damn veggies, and eat them raw. As long as you aren’t eating high-Mercury fish and you eat your vegetables you should be fine.

Note: it has not been scientifically ‘proven’ that these vegetables will help you, but it is a safer bet than not eating them at all. Research suggests that they may be helpful, and that they contain chelating agents, but this does not by any means indicate that you may eat swordfish every day so long as you eat a raw onion and a head of broccoli.

>>16520654
I've been doing broccoli micro greens a few times a week. In my salad I usually add some shallots, so I'm sure that all helps.

>>16518793
>MUH COAL PLANT
Coal plants are nowhere near the fishiries.

>>16521016
Coal plants are the modern day sources of mercury.
Back in the late 18 and 1900's there was a chemical process which involved mercury, the end result was a methylated mercury, or organic mercury; the most dangerous form as it readily absorbs through your tissues.
There was a whole river in Japan that they fucked up because they were dumping tons of organic mercury.
The bad part is that organic mercury is very stable, so it will take an eternity for it to go away. It will likely take thousands of years for it to revert back to elemental mercury and fall to the bottom of the sea.

>>16521016
>modern day sources of mercury.
>Back in the late 18 and 1900'
Anon...

>>16521047
The chemical process I was speaking of does not relate to coal plants.
The manufacture of acetaldehyde was a main source of organic mercury that was dumped into the environment. Obviously, we don't do that anymore.

>>16518793
eat krill
replenish vril

>>16521047
Yes, in terms of Mercury, 150 years is a relatively short amount of time
Congrats on being a brainlet

>>16518793
if that's the way mercury enters the ocean, then why isn't it everywhere?

>>16521232
Power plants are generally built near water because they use steam to operate. The most convenient place to dump byproducts is usually into said river.
There used to be streams that would reach 10 degrees hotter on average due to coal plants and this kills the fauna/flora.

>>16521232
organic mercury is water soluble and ends up accumulating in reservoirs like oceans and lakes. The evaporation point for methylmercury is arouind 200 degrees F or 93 degrees C for you non-burgers. This ensures that it doesn't evaporate out of the water and go everywhere.

>>16521094
wtf is vril?

>>16518793

Would you eat a rectal thermometer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfde7SHM6Dk

>>16521663
I wouldn't put anything in my ass that I wouldn't put in my mouth. Anal cleanliness is too often neglected by current cultural mores.

The sphincter is a portal the spiritual innards of the body as the alchemical mirror of the mouth. The nostrils (a facial sex organ) are clearly the mirror to the genetalia, and the ears are to the navel as false entryways. Anything that can harm the spirit by way of the mouth can equally harm the carnal body by way of the ass, and vice versa.

>>16521650
vrility

>>16521650
sci-fi unobtanium from a novel that was popular with the nazis

>>16520438
>>16521663
The thing about elemental mercury is that theoretically it's completely safe to consume so long as you don't have any sores or ulcers in your GI system. The danger from elemental mercury comes from inhalation, as around room temperature elemental mercury slowly evaporates. Elemental mercury is actually useful for a lot of GI issues like constipation, and they used it as medicine back in the day. Mercury salts were often used to treat syphilis, however those salts do get absorbed by the GI tract and can lead to mercury poisoning.

I made this thread because mercury is a tricky issue. It can take months or even years for symptoms to surface. I can't really find any resources on modern case studies where seafood consumption landed someone in the hospital.

i don't that much fish so i don't worry about it that much.

do people worry about microplastics
and ocean pollution when it comes to fish and know how to avoid it? i'm curious.

>>16518793
Apart from where they are in the food-chain, there are three other factors: source, age and fat content. Source because salt water is often more tainted than sweet water. Age is obvious because it will accumulate over time, so use species with fast generation cycles. Fat content because heavy metals can dissolve easier in oil. Also, avoid fish liver (though it's really tasty). So either young oily fish like sardines or whitefish like cod.

I try to eat farmed salmon

>>16524014
Farmed salmon has the same amount of mercury as wild caught. I was reading a while ago that farmed salmon is actually worse for the environment.
>>16523771
Salmon has very low mercury despite it being an oily fish. I tend to go oily for those omega 3's.