Is my sister BU to say these photos show little pieces of metal in her food? (Photos attached) (Update with extra photos on page 5)

[Carla786]

My older sister has recently begun reading info on bad things in food like microplastics, EDCs, UPFs etc. Now, I agree with her these things are worrying.

She sent me these photos yesterday evening, saying she thinks they show 'little pieces of metal' in her food, and is now worried about how to avoid metal..

I just see bubbles and the light shining. Is she BU?

Maybe I'm wrong. ... Or not...

She says it looks different from bubbles & light. Really?

I think some info on health food on SM can slide into 'government is putting metal in food' conspiracies, personally, and this is why she is worried. I mean, if it is metal large enough to see, why doesn't it taste hard or crunchy?

Or maybe it is weird?

I would have binned it, not for metal, but because it looks like vomit. To be fair I wouldn't have bought it in the first place. Soup is easy to do, batch and freeze, you know what's in it.

The man in the moon is potato?

I think she needs to talk to doctor for her mental health and paranoia.

She sounds paranoid, OP. Or like she has contamination OCD. How’s her mental health generally?

Or maybe her eyesight needs checking, does she have floaters or something disrupting her vision?

Apparently the soup looked like this after it was cooked.

She claims it was very heavy on the stomach and felt like eating 'battery'- metallic. Sounds like bad quality soup to me. I'm encouraging her to stop using tins and let me know if she keeps seeing metal in her food.

I think that's a bit harsh...! It sounds like it was bad quality though.

I agree with pp's suggestion about potential contamination OCD.

Good suggestion. This is a possibility. I'll advise her to see an optician.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound harsh. From your photo, did she then put the beans in the soup?

It does sound like OCD, you're a lovely sister to be concerned. Staying off tins in the short term is a good idea.

I get them occasionally, they really do distort vision fleetingly, especially in artifical light.

The green veg (curly kale?) looks like a proud cockerel marching on his way.
Google images says the one that isn't beans is taro paste.
The bean soup looks OK. No metal.

If she's so worried about stuff being added to food why isn't she making her own?

I read that as "in her foot" and I've been looking for the foot photos and then looking at the food for feet and realised it said food- not foot. And now I'm going to sleep. 🙈🤣

Well, I'd hope that the Kale is full of iron otherwise what's the point in eating it.

Glad you've identified the weird grey sludge as that made no sense. For someone worried about UPFs she's not doing much cooking from scratch is she.

I doubt that the sort of heavy metals she is worried about would be visible to the eye, if things like Mercury or lead were in large enough quantities to be visible in our foods then I think we'd all be very sick. She's not wrong in thinking there are traces of these things in the food chain but I think her anxiety has got the better of her if she thing it's actual bits of metal she can see.

That's OK, I agree it doesn't look very appetising. 🤣

Thank you. Obviously she's an adult so family can't restrict phone access- though online stuff is surely part of the problem. I think the best thing is probably to encourage her to buy fresh & cook where possible and spend less time on SM. It's very hard when someone has got into these belief systems...

Thank you, I agree they would not be visible and huge quantities would make us visibly ill.

'Heavy metals' was the term she used. It sounded funny at first but I see these are actual issues. Not the way she imagines, though...!

Oh I get that, my sister voted for Brexit.....although now she seems to deny that ever happened.

Sisters , eh?

😂

It’s not ideal that she is eating concrete

Well, I'd hope that the Kale is full of iron otherwise what's the point in eating it.

Kale is lovely. Steamed with salt....yum.

Kale is something one eats because one thinks one should.

Fortunately I got over that.

Why doesn’t she make her own soup from scratch with fresh veg, then she can relax and eat it knowing there’s no foreign objects in it.

She’s going to end up very hungry

That second photo looks very grey (but not due to metal)

The soup has flecks of black pepper in it.

The kale and beans look entirely normal and not contaminated with metal.

The photo of the beans combined with soup show... well...odd culinary choices, thats all, but not metal.

She must be in a pretty horrible place right now. Hope you can get to the bottom of it or help her out.

I'd be wary of putting her off any food, she'll head towards an eating disorder. She's slipping into unhealthy obsessions and as said poor mental health. She's seeing things that aren't there, in fresh vegetables, that's worrying. If you put her off tinned foods, she'll 'see' the metals within ingredients. It's a pity a trusted family member or friend can't visit and talk her through what she thinks she is seeing.

Either way, I hope you managed to calm her down tonight @Carla786 , you are a lovely sister.