Microwave Popcorn

Good or Bad? Just swallowed 3/4 a bag....the kids are ****ed.....

Tear open the bag and see is the bottom is scorched. There is a
metalized patch in the layers of the bottom paper. If the bottom is
scorched, then adhesives, with known carcinogens, from within the paper
has leeched into the popped corn.

Mho Fho wrote:

metalized patch in the layers of the bottom paper. If the bottom is
scorched, then adhesives, with known carcinogens, from within the paper
has leeched into the popped corn.

NEWSFLASH: ALL cooked food have known carcinogens. It is part of the
definition of cooked.

Just thought that you might want to know.

Your comment is not all that helpful. The trace amounts that occur in
food naturally are nothing compared to the amounts that can occur from
industrial additives, many times they are several orders of magnitude
greater in concentration.

There are some examples, like the alkaloids in the skins of cucumbers
that some people have some concens about, but these are few in number.

It's as if you are trying to tell someone that because you can measure
some small concentration of carbon monoxide in fresh air in a forest
that they should lessen the concerns that they have about the air
quality in places like warehouses where people are riding around on
fork trucks.

Here's a good place to start chasing down information on this topic:

http://www.gobelle.com/p/articles/mi...v17/ai_8811061

Just thought that you might want to know.

455 wrote:
Good or Bad? Just swallowed 3/4 a bag....the kids are ****ed.....


I don't think there is anything particularily bad about popcorn, other
than the high calorie content.

http://www.foodfileonline.com/search?s=popcorn


Will

Right. Popcorn is a food. The problem I'm trying to point out is that
the embedded 'heat susceptors' in some packaged microwave-ready
products aren't sufficiently shielded from the food. Air popped
popcorn is the safest.

A good place to find information on problems such as this one is at The
Center for Science in the Public Interest. www.cspinet.org

455 wrote:
Good or Bad? Just swallowed 3/4 a bag....the kids are ****ed.....



very bad....

yep. google "pop secret's dirty little secret" and "hydrogenated
vegetable oil" . hvo and high fructose corn syrup are what is making
america fat. and its in 40% of the food at a regular grocery store.
"Whole Foods" will not sell any products with hvo in it.

Mho Fho wrote:

Your comment is not all that helpful.

Then kindly provide a citation to pubmed that documents that microwave
popcorn is exceptionally bad for you?

How about just ordinarily bad?

455 wrote:

Good or Bad? Just swallowed 3/4 a bag....the kids are ****ed.....

Your reaction to the food is more important than any
theory about whether that food is good or bad.

Did you eat through that much without stopping? Then
for you it is a very bad idea to have more. Did you
have some, let it set for a while, have some more,
and two hours later a quarter was left when the kids
arrived? Then for you it is fine.