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[–] [email protected] 131 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

they used to put brick dust in chocolate bars, and sawdust in bread

edit: heck, they just caught someone recently intentionally putting lead in ~~applesauce~~ cinnamon that was used in applesauce, which has been used off and on as a sweetener since at least ancient rome, where a bunch of people went crazy and died from consuming a sweetener made by boiling grapes in lead pots

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean if you think about it, cinnamon is essentially sawdust right?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Very wrong. Cinnamon is king.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just mean because cinnamon (the spice) is the bark of the cinnamon tree, which when ground up is a form of sawdust. Delicious sawdust, but sawdust, nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact: Cinnamon (Cinnamomum) is the genus not the species. There are Ceylon trees and Cassia trees and a bunch of others but no specifically Cinnamon trees.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

TIL. Fascinating!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ha, I did not know that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just in case you weren't actually aware, that wasn't a statement about the quality of cinnamon as a spice. It's literally made frome ground up tree bark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Spices lose their flavor over time. Yours are too old; throw them out and replace them.

Or at least start using a fuck-ton more than the recipe calls for until you use up the old stuff.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're missing the point. Copying what I wrote above:

I just mean because cinnamon (the spice) is the bark of the cinnamon tree, which when ground up is a form of sawdust. Delicious sawdust, but sawdust, nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh shit, I got whooshed. 😳

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ackshually, sawdust isn't bark. It's wood.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, this is a very good point because as we all know it's impossible for a saw to cut bark.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, then "sawdust" just becomes anything that a saw can cut?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Anything that's part of a log. That includes bark, I imagine.

Edit: we still cool bro

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Copper sulfate used to be added to canned peas because it turns green when it oxidizes, making them look greener.

Copper sulphate is straight up poisonous, enough will kill a passion and low amounts will hurt them.

Anyone who wants to learn more about this history, there is a great episode of the “ridiculous history” podcast that goes into the story that finally got food regulations in the US. A team of people who volunteered to be poisoned to help prove that certain things are unsafe to put in food.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

enough will kill a passion

Those poor, poor passions!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's also HEAVY, so something light sold by weight just needs a liiiiittle lead to be a lot cheaper to make

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago

This is what caused that pet food scare back in the 00's. Some Chinese manufacturer realized that they were being paid by weight, not volume, so they added heavy metals to their cat food and it poisoned a few cats here in the US.

China executed that guy btw.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

recently

My wife loves apple sauce, who did this to her

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

WanaBana Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouches, Schnucks cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches and variety pack and Weis cinnamon applesauce pouches were recalled

it was actually the cinnamon in the applesauce being cut with lead to significantly increase it's weight, thus it's value. It was an Ecuadoran cinnamon processor called Carlos Aguilera

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/24/nx-s1-5119336/cinnamon-lead-fda-recall-what-we-know

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That should be okay now. I totally expect no subsequent tests with results showing any contamination.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't there lead found in other spices, too? Like tumeric or something?

Yep!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5415259/