New
salicylate analyses
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Laboratory
testing update (from Failsafe Newsletter #57 July – September 2008: during
2007-08, FIN spent $4,351 on laboratory tests, looking for illegal additives
and seeking to extend the knowledge of salicylate contents of foods. We have
been unable to find a reliable laboratory for salicylates so this program is
suspended. Thanks to Julie Eady of Additive Alert for
a $600 donation towards this testing.
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There was a great response when we asked for nominations for
further laboratory analyses for salicylates. People wanted a wider range of
failsafe foods and also to clarify existing analyses. From the nominations, it
is also clear that some people are confused about what salicylates are and that they are found in most fruit and some vegetables, not
in fish and cheese. Some products
requested have already been tested and so do not appear in the list below. Many
people are reporting reactions to sunola oil (a
mixture of sunflower and canola oils) yet it “should” be low in salicylates.
The tests cost $170 each so we can only afford a limited number
based on donations. Thanks to those who offered to help fund this initiative.
Here are all your requests in a draft list for comment, based on a
guess as to how low in salicylates the foods are and hence how useful a
positive result might be in Australia and New Zealand (sorry USA) – please
email confoodnet@ozemail.com.au
with “Salicylates” in the subject line.
|
Priority |
Products |
|
1 |
Nori
seaweed Palm oil Persimmon wine Sunola oil Yellow tomatoes (eg Ivory) |
|
Others suggested |
Acerola
berries - fresh and dried Amaranth Apple, newer variety like Pink Lady Balsalmic vinegar Beans, wax or yellow Black sapote Capers Cassava Celeriac Chia seeds Chinese cabbage (Wombok) Coconut oil, coconut milk, etc. Elderberry (black) Elderflower cordial Feijoas, cherry guavas – fresh Fish sauce Garlic chives Grapeseed oil Green peppercorns Hempseed oil Horseradish Kohlrabi (turnip-rooted cabbage) Lemon grass Lemon zest Lettuce, varieties other than Iceberg, particularly Cos and
Rocket Limes Miso paste Mussels Olive oil Orange zest Paw-paw, red (papaya) Persimmon wine Pumpkin seeds Quince Quinoa Red kidney beans Rice wine vinegar Ricebran oil Safflower oil Sarsparilla Sassafras root Silverbeet
(listed as high in the most recent Friendly Food) Sorghum sweetener Squash: acorn, delicata,
summer-yellow, patty-pan-yellow/green, hubbard,
crookneck Sunflower oil Sweet (aka Spanish) chestnuts Taro (Dasheen, Eddoes) Yams |
