This paper from the British Medical Journal defines commercial bread as a highly processed food: Consumption of ultra-processed foods and cancer risk: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort. What's more, supermarket bread and pastries come wrapped in plastic, their  ingredients processed, bagged and shipped to bakeries in plastic containers where they are measured, transported, mixed and... Continue Reading →

Most people are aware that that Bisphenol A  leaches into canned foods. That, according to more than 19,000 scientific studies. The same danger holds for very similar compounds BPF and BPS (known as regrettable substitutions). Unfortunately, the same bisphenol problem (along with other plastic contaminants such as phthalates) holds true for other food containers, especially... Continue Reading →

Promotions for the Teaze loose tea infuser touts itself as using  "BPA free" and "medical grade Tritan" which ignores the fact that published scientific tests (see below) of Tritan have found that it leaches an artificial estrogen in the same manner as Bisphenol A. This practice is known as a "regrettable substitution" and is the... Continue Reading →