Posted on 05/03/2025 4:56:24 AM PDT by dennisw
"In 2024, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) routine testing indicated that one lot of 10-ounce Martinelli’s Apple Juice glass bottles (in 4-packs only) produced in December 2023 may contain elevated levels of Patulin, a naturally occurring substance produced by molds that can grow in apples,"I'd never heard of "Patulin" before.The amount of patulin in apple products is typically viewed as a measure of the quality of the apples used, according to the National Library of Medicine.
Patulin is a mycotoxin produced by certain molds, primarily Penicillium expansum, that can contaminate apples and apple products like apple juice. While it’s a concern in food safety, its danger depends on exposure levels, frequency, and individual health factors.Patulin is produced by molds growing on damaged, bruised, or rotting apples. It’s most common in apples with visible mold, soft spots, or core rot.
At high doses, patulin can cause nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal irritation, and stomach discomfort. Long-term exposure to elevated levels can cause lots of bad things.
Perhaps what many don’t realize is that many - if not the majority - of the packaging components come from China. Items like boxes, bags, plastic jars, bottles, caps and other closures etc.
Worse still, as far as I know, not a single American manufacturer makes the caps and pumps you find on things large such as mustard jugs, sprayers like those used on household cleaning products, caps and pumps used in cosmetic packaging etc. Next time you get a hot dog at a ball game that yellow tub of of mustard with the white pump and probably the label on the tub were likely made in China (even if the actual mustard was made in the USA). I can’t say for sure about every product but I imagine that the packaging for most mass market consumables (think P&G, Unilever, J&J, Post etc) ranging from cereal, aspirin, vitamins, shampoo, engine oil (anything that is sold in a bottle or box) and even a deck of cards or small parts sold at Home Depot and Auto Zone odds are the outer box, packaging (bag or bottle or those plastic sealed thingy that it difficult to open), cap and label is from China, even if the usable portion of the product is not. Even the master case carton may come from China. Even expensive “French” skin creams - the box and container is likely sourced from China. This is why China dropped their retaliatory tariff on US made ethene - they need ethene to make plastic things.
I heard once, I think from The Rest of the Story, that Johnny wanted land and he could get it cheap as long as he improved it. Apple orchards were an improvement.
I won’t buy any “farm fished” salmon or any other seafood that possibly comes from polluted Chinese farms.
The “line-caught” is more expensive, but worth it IMO.
Was in Lowe’s yesterday and noticed empty shelves for the first time so it seems to be hitting them.
Good.
I have a huge apple tree that produces masses of wonderfully sweet apples each year - I’ve wanted a press for a long time to make juice - this will be a good excuse.
I also grow garlic easily.
“Tilapia? You mean that rubbery tasteless mercury laced thing they call fish?”
yes, THAT tilapia ...
Grok 3 says almost ALL tilapia is farmed ...
which means raised in mudholes, doused with huge quantities of antibiotics, and fed corn meal, meaning it contains none of the beneficial Omega fats which people think they are consuming by eating “healthy” fish ...
Yeah China has 1.3 billion starving people but can grow enough apples to make juice for export. As for tilapia, I thought I liked it until I found that it is raised in farms swimming below chicken coops, which means it eats chicken poops. I am in support of using everything and wasting nothing but I am not going to eat tilapia ever again. It’s not like there aren’t a dozen other species of fish that taste as good or better.
” All grocery stores, the least expensive apple juice (no sugar added) is derived from China.”
indeed ... branded juice like Mott’s claims to be mostly from USA apples, except when the USA apple supply falls short ...
Yah, ever since they poisoned dogs, years ago. They deliberately replaced actual protein in the mix with a plastic compound that tests out as protein. Then, when the puppers eat it they die.
This is to be expected from a populace that embraces any aspect of commie trash — what you value is immaterial.
“I’ve been reading labels for years and if it says made in China, doesn’t go in the cart.”
indeed ... and we now avoid all farmed “seafood”: we kept getting sick eating salmon and shrimp, and after careful research, realized it was all farmed, which means raised in mudholes, doused with antibiotics and fed corn mean, and in the case of farmed salmon, fed artificial color because corn meal contains none of the colorants contained in the natural foods of wild salmon ...
according to Grok 3:
“Approximately 60% of apple juice consumed in the USA is imported, with China being the largest supplier, accounting for about two-thirds of the imported supply.”
“including pet food.”
especially pet food and pet “chews”: numerous documented cases of pets being killed by contaminated chinese garbage ...
Living in New York State (not so far from Cortland, NY) this sad and happy to hear.
Sad if true, but happy that we can grow and sell more apples from NY.
Florida raised tilapia is better with no rank fishy flavor, the Chinese ones are strongly fishy/muddy and the filets are very small.
Gulf of America shrimp is the way to go.
California used to grow fantastic garlic.
When I played golf everyday in Washington State, there were hundreds thousand apples fallen on the ground from apple trees. May be new factories can start there producing apple juice after the cheap product from China stops
Re: 136 - maybe if they harvest them before they drop. Drops are not used for juice.
Oh yes, I remember garlic festival in some small town near Sacramento, every year in California. That was in 1990’s.
Yes I agree and are aware of that. Problem is it is cheaper to use slave labor in China to pick apples.
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