/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19873565]

>To heighten their colour, the rhizomes from which the spice is extracted are routinely dusted with lead chromate, a neurotoxin. The practice helps explain why South Asia has the highest rates of lead poisoning in the world. The heart and brain diseases it causes—to which children are especially susceptible—accounted for at least 1.4m deaths in the region in 2019. The economic cost is crippling; that year lead poisoning is estimated to have lowered South Asian productivity by the equivalent of 9% of gdp

>The poisoning has many causes. Weak or absent regulators permit lead-infused cooking utensils, cosmetics and other products. Yet adulterated turmeric looks like a major culprit almost everywhere, chiefly owing to poor practice in India, which produces 75% of the spice. India was the source of much of the poisonous pigment found in Bangladesh and is estimated to have the highest incidence of lead poisoning of any country.

Sirs pls stop putting lead in my turmeric, I thought I was being healthy not giving myself brain damage.

http://web.archive.org/web/20231104090102/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/11/02/how-to-stop-turmeric-from-killing-people

[Anonymous No.19873577]

man I loved turmeric
fuck this gay earth

[Anonymous No.19873580]

>>19873577
me too I use it all the time
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.19873581]

I knew I was doing well not be eating that junk.

[Anonymous No.19873631]

>>19873565
>Oops! All Lead!
i’m so beyond sick of indians at this point

[Anonymous No.19873648]

>>19873631
>one of the most diverse countries on the planet
>somehow they all talk and act the same way and have the same abhorrent tastes
Doesn't matter if they're from Kerala or Assam, it's like meeting the same three or four mildly retarded people again and again, sharing the web with those guys.

[Anonymous No.19873655]

>>19873648
>7 years ago there were no indians on the clearnet, all they did was listen to telugu bollywood songs on youtube
>”pls sir open bob i kiss u” hornyposters were rare and laughed at
>now literally every social media platform is filled to the brim with indians
i blame xiaomi

[Anonymous No.19873661]

>>19873631
Is India's entire culture abou5 scamming people?

[Anonymous No.19873670]

>>19873631
>>19873648
>>19873655
zika was supposed to make a lot more 3rd worlders infertile and I'm sad it didn't...

[Anonymous No.19873686]

>>19873661
Nah, that's China, but it looks like India is trying to catch up!

[Anonymous No.19873690]

>9% of GDP
>To fucking lead

[Anonymous No.19873771]

>>19873690
even low degrees of lead poisoning can lower your IQ, give you all kinds of expensive, distracting and usually incurable health issues, and it's linked to an increase in violent crime.
The latter is a lot more noticeable than one might think. The ban on leaded gasoline is visible in violent crime statistics all around the world, and some nerds even did statistical analysis to confirm this.
I guess this is the minimum amount of statistics you have to do to convince an economist reader that giving over a billion people lead poisoning is bad, actually.

[Anonymous No.19873786]

>>19873771
Thats true anon.
But 9% most likely comes from health issues + measurable early death. Such as being unable to work more at 60 instead of 65, etc.

[Anonymous No.19874027]

>>19873565
Boomer medicine.

[Anonymous No.19874041]

Wait, this is purely done for the sake of colour? It's not even because of preservatives of shipping or some 0.1% increased yield/profit dogshit?

I hate Indians. It probably tastes BETTER if you don't, yknow, dust it with lead too. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.19874231]

>>19874041
it looks like the lead is bright yellow, costco tumeric is distinctly a duller orange so i wonder if that means it’s lead-free

[Anonymous No.19874268]

>>19873631
>>19873648
>>19873655
>>19873661
>>19873670
>>19873686
>>19873690
>>19874041
good morning sirs

[Anonymous No.19874276]

>>19873661
Literally yes. The entire culture is fashioned around scamming and cheating, goes back to the caste system. Unlike other hierarchal systems in other parts of the world, there really wasn’t any real tangible difference between the castes. You have every Indian being a street shitting retard, so you develop a culture around scamming and lying about your caste.

[Anonymous No.19874340]

>>19874276
Don't forget the babyjirls who become hote mommas

[Anonymous No.19874348]

>>19874340
the mac weldon ad they did where nick says they prevent odor unless you're too indian was one of the best bits they ever did

[Anonymous No.19874351]

>>19873631
>>19873661
yes anons

[Anonymous No.19874356]

We know you want to post the webms of the Indians eating literal cow shit.

[Anonymous No.19874362]

>>19874356
This one?

[Anonymous No.19874363]

>>19874351
>fresh and hygienic vegetables are also unhealthy
It's like I'm really on /ck/!

[Anonymous No.19874369]

>>19874362
No, no not that one. There's more than one, huh.

Superpower by 2030

[Anonymous No.19874391]

>>19874362
there is one where it's three guys and they're doing big fake social media smiles and they pick a bunch of shit off the floor and then take it to some outdoor area and just start eating it. they are smiling really big the whole time and it really freaks me out.

[Anonymous No.19874394]

>>19874391
This one?

[Anonymous No.19874398]

>>19874394
yep, that's the one. i am not watching it again

[Anonymous No.19874423]

>>19874351
>there is no harm in selling painted and injected vegetables
god i want to nuke India until it's a giant sheet of hard glass

[Anonymous No.19874426]

>>19874363
>im a retard and didnt click the webm

[Anonymous No.19874457]

>>19874426
No I watched the whole thing, the entire rationale is that Indians find fresh hygienic vegetables unhealthy as well so it's okay to cover them in poison.

[Anonymous No.19874501]

>>19873565
spice fraud is a well know thing.
like putting papaya seeds among black peppercorns

[Anonymous No.19874528]

>>19874394
Be careful, jannies will ban you. Not only once, but 3 times for a single post.

[Anonymous No.19874549]

>>19874351
I feel like I should have known that non-vibrant meat and vegetables are more safe to eat. Everyone cheats more or less in making stuff appear more appetizing. I will now go find the blandest most bleak brown looking vegetables instead.

[Anonymous No.19874560]

>>19874549
Therein lies the rub anon, vegetables are supposed to be big and bright and colorful and factory farming and lack of crop rotation and breaks means soil is exhausted and makes shit vegetables. The vegetables that look shit are shit, and the vegetables that look good are fake good and also shit. The vegetables that are actually good are difficult to find and difficult to distinguish from shit veggies that have been dolled up.

[Anonymous No.19874566]

>>19873565
Oh well, I wasn't going to use it anyways because it's not used in white people food (except neon yellow mustard, which I don't use). But I have an extra reason to avoid it now.

[Anonymous No.19874581]

>>19874276
With enough public torture and executions of scum doing this, along with their families, the behaviour of these animals would improve

[Anonymous No.19874641]

>>19874394
Is that a 120mm CoolMaster fan powering their stove there?

[Anonymous No.19874659]

turmeric is toxic even without lead.

[Anonymous No.19874661]

>>19873565
so this explains the lead exposure warnings on the Japanese curry boxes

[Anonymous No.19874665]

>>19874041
lead is supposed to be sweet I think. I wouldn’t know, though maybe that was arsenic…

[Anonymous No.19874727]

oh fugggg DDD: no wonder I was feeling a bit retarded lately

[Anonymous No.19874734]

>>19874665
Lead acetate is sweet tasting tasting lead compound; you get it by putting fruit juice or wine in a lead container.

[Anonymous No.19874756]

>>19873565
This has been common knowledge for years, haven't had turmeric in like 10 years. When they recall turmeric it's because the heavy metal levels have gotten past the "acceptable" limit. This acceptable limit is already extremely high to begin with. Trust indians at your own plight.

[Anonymous No.19874774]

>>19873565
I wonder if those little paint lead testers would work on turmeric.

[Anonymous No.19874796]

>>19873577
>>19873580
Its not really an issue if you dont live in asia

[Anonymous No.19874811]

They obviously test it when they import it here

[Anonymous No.19874832]

>>19874811
Who tests the testers?

[Anonymous No.19874836]

>>19874832
It's called good old fashioned anglo competence

[Anonymous No.19874839]

>>19873565
Yeah if I were you I wouldn't look up how sugar or canola oil is produced.

[Anonymous No.19874857]

>>19874839
I don't see a problem with sugar being made other than being a long and complex process. It's not like they're extracting it with chemical poisons which is the case with some canola oil.

[Anonymous No.19874897]

>>19874796
proof??

[Anonymous No.19875170]

Western Turmeric uses egg for the color, so that's not my problem.

[Anonymous No.19875186]

Anyone tried planting their own turmeric? I live in the tropics, and my grandma had some in her backyard, but never really cooked with it, I think she just used it for infusions.

[Anonymous No.19875954]

>>19875186
Very easy, just get some fresh rhizomes and put them into soil. They will spread and make a tick patch with a silly amount of tubers underneath. You can harvest more than you ever need after a few years and the only care it needs is cutting back some overgrowth from time to time. To use, just grate the fresh root. Its much more aromatic than the powder.
Mix with fresh galangal, lemon gras, chilies, cilantro and coconut milk for an amazing curry.

[Anonymous No.19876239]

>>19874391
Compared to that taking a bath in it seems almost normal.

[Anonymous No.19876245]

>>19874839
>He thinks there's such thing as a canola in nature
Anon I-

[Anonymous No.19876253]

>>19874362
average brampton female

[Anonymous No.19876300]

I'm not worried. Most turmeric in the US is pretty safe. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5415259/

[Anonymous No.19876313]

>>19876239
Swear to god India has got to be the strangest country on earth

[Anonymous No.19876407]

>>19873655
The stupid canadians keep importing them. https://twitter.com/chaosismygoal/status/1719812724560134603
North America is Traditional Catholic clay. Indians have to be expelled. The only cure js a Traditional Catholic Reconquista.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55f___1XYVE

[Anonymous No.19876419]

>>19873565
Well SHIT...

[Anonymous No.19876519]

>>19873771
It's probably to do more with the health care costs/lowered ability to work directly than the indirect crime and lower IQ. God only knows how you'd even begin to measure the opportunity cost of turning your 85 IQ populace into a 76 on average

[Anonymous No.19876711]

>>19874659
Based

[Anonymous No.19876797]

>>19876407
what the hell have they done to rolling down to old maui

[Anonymous No.19876806]

>>19876239
>manager in pharmaceutical company
Superpower 2030

[Anonymous No.19876809]

>>19873565
Never seen them with yellow skin.

Anyway nobody cares there about dyes, they throw that coloured everywhere for that festival they do

[Anonymous No.19877018]

>>19873565
Turns out indians are the hyperbole of all the worst qualities of humanity in a single race. Who knew?
>*looks at shit hole country*

[Anonymous No.19877099]

>>19876239
it's remind me of the The Lost World

TV Mini Series
2001

[Anonymous No.19878862]

>>19875954
Thanks anon I'll try it out, I don't really like curry but I've only tried store-bought powder, it seems like having all the fresh ingredients could make it really good. I also got lemon grass and some (non-spicy) chili peppers in my garden.

[Anonymous No.19879506]

>>19873565
Are you fucking kidding man. I make it a point to eat enough tumeric.

[Anonymous No.19879527]

>>19874528

[Anonymous No.19879554]

>>19873565
Why are they so retarded? This is like putting fluoride in water.

[Anonymous No.19879563]

>>19875954
if it's so easy and abundant, why bother adding fucking lead?

[Anonymous No.19879614]

>>19873565
>Weak or absent regulators permit
This is the future conservatives want.

[Anonymous No.19879799]

To test if your turmeric has lead in it, add a teaspoon of it to a glass of lukewarm water. Don't stir. Let it sit for 20 minutes.
Pure turmeric will settle to the bottom. Impure turmeric will turn the water cloudy.

[Anonymous No.19879862]

>>19879799
Winco bulk bin turmeric settles to the bottom.
Based Winco.

[Anonymous No.19879910]

>>19879799
how about buying mexican turmeric instead pajeet's?

[Anonymous No.19879993]

>>19874661
Nooooooo

[Anonymous No.19879996]

What the fuck

[Anonymous No.19880010]

>>19874394
IT’S FUCKING BLACK, YOU’VE FUCKING BURNT IT YOU DONKEYS. LOOK AT IIIIIIIIT

[Anonymous No.19880013]

why the fuck does india even exist? are they a buffer state against china? do they have rare minerals? i know the brits colonized them but what did they actually gain? people shit talk africa for living in the stone age but i wouldn't be surprised if you went back a thousand years india would look the same minus the scooters and smart phones

[Anonymous No.19880015]

>>19873577
Huh, I thought this was a fake article before I looked it up. FYI curcumin a compound found in turmeric is the most potent natural anti inflammatory and it penetrates the blood brain barrier or something but you need to take it with black pepper. This seems like Jew propaganda. If this is a thing, just make sure you get your turmeric from a reputable source. I legit feel sharp as fuck after I take a tablespoon of this spice with some pepper after my meals.

[Anonymous No.19880030]

>>19880015
how do you take it? mixed in something like yoghurt or water?

[Anonymous No.19880033]

>>19873565
when that stuff ends up in U.S. stores, it's mostly at white people stores because the brands on the shelf are just resellers with questionable sourcing practices. Reputable brands like SWAD never shipped leaded turmeric.

[Anonymous No.19880048]

>>19874426
It's a quote from the webm moron

[Anonymous No.19880051]

>>19879563
So it looks better duh

[Anonymous No.19880273]

>>19879910
Maybe you can buy cocaine with the same farmers

[Anonymous No.19880293]

>>19873565
fresh turmeric is superior anyway

[Anonymous No.19880300]

>>19874528
janniggers should be gassed
change my mind

[Anonymous No.19880306]

I just use saffron instead because I'm not a poorfag.

[Anonymous No.19880436]

>>19880013
Fuk u bitch superpower 2026

[Anonymous No.19880448]

>>19880030
Not him. It's gotta be mixed into a lipid because curcumin is fat soluble not water soluble. The piperine in black pepper, which potentiates the curcumin, is also fat soluble. So you need turmeric, black pepper and a lipid to mix them into.
The way I take it is as part of my daily generic Metamucil, because psyllium fiber is fucking lifechanging - daily 3's and 4's on the Bristol Stool chart. I first mix some turmeric and black pepper into some EVOO then I add generic Metamucil (Walmart brand is cheap and readily available), water and lemon juice (for flavor and to prevent oxalate stones), mix and drink.
Some people like to make a lot of paste with turmeric, oil and pepper and save it in a jar, but I found this got moldy pretty quickly so I don't do this.