You know how we aren't supposed to eat tinned tomatoes?

[originalbiglymavis]

Baked beans? What about bakes beans? Can you get nice ones in a jar or carton?

I had a lecturer who used to go on about not eating green potatoes. She is American and it is a 'thing' there. I've never heard anyone else say that.

I have an American acquaintance who lives in the EU and keeps warning her "neighbours" about the dangers of fluoride in tap water, hormones in beef and ammonia in burgers, none of which apply to them, since none of it is relevant this side of the pond.

We have fluoride in the water here in Ireland, just to pointlessly nitpick

Sorry, bold fail

I'm doomed

The truth is that we're all going to die one way or another. Everything kills us.
YY to using recyclables - where I live glass is recyclable so no problems with jars.

I had a lecturer who used to go on about not eating green potatoes. She is American and it is a 'thing' there. I've never heard anyone else say that.

Really? My mother taught us to cut out any green... its been know for a long time that green potatoes contain a toxin (solanine). You probably won't eat enough to harm you but it doesn't taste good. See eg http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/greenpotatoes.asp

any green on potatoes means don't eat them in EU, too.

I have relatives who are anti-water in plastic bottles. The hilarious bit is all the plastic wrapped around the rest of their foods, or the plastic pipes that bring water into their homes, but just the bottled water you buy in supermarkets they have decided to fear.

"Is there a possible linguistic issue with the US too - their canned goods tend to be what we would call bottled, so in glass jars rather than tins."
I think you're thinking of "home canning" which is usually done with glass jars. Otherwise, with store bought items in the US, can=tin.
And baked beans bloody well shouldn't have tomato in them anyway, it's disgusting.

I don't mean to be rude or passive aggressive but do you actually think being a doctor (a SENIOR surgeon no less) makes you an expert in everything? Also I have plenty of doctors in my family and I've never heard this from them. More importantly, I have a relative who works in food hygiene who says this talk about food reacting with the cans is nonsense and he actually knows about the science of this stuff. I'm always consulting him about these issues.

The water in plastic bottles thing is about reuse, isn't it? (Apart from pollution that is)

If you keep refilling the plastic bottles some of the dodgy plastic stuff leaches into the water. Plastic & metal flasks are a better idea.

Oh, wait.

cancer research UK says that's not true either

Well, Breast Cancer UK is calling for a ban of BPA in food packaging.

The problem is that BPA mimics the effects of oestrogen in the body. Most can linings contain BPA. However, lots of other plastics are also oestrogen mimicers so BPA-free plastics are not any better. Many studies have shown these plastics do leach into food over time. Animal studies have shown high levels of oestrogen-approximating plastics lead to lower fertility, developmental defects, and some forms of cancer.

The jury is out as to whether humans are exposed to enough BPA (and similar) to cause these problems. Ongoing research is looking at exactly that question. So it's true that there is no firm evidence that oestrogen-mimicking plastics are harmful to humans, and there's also no firm evidence that they're harmless.

A cautious few are acting to reduce their exposure until the data comes in. It's a personal decision at this stage, fairly risk-averse but not nonsense.

OP, my DH was told to avoid tinned tomatoes and use cartons instead, at a diabetes workshop last week.

I can't honestly remember what the reason was, I wasn't really listening but I've switched. (Cartons fit much nicer in the cupboards anyway!)

"I won't drink tap water as I watch far too many crime thrillers and everytime I see a slab being sluiced out I think 'eoooow, that's going into the water supply!'"

Please tell me this is a joke.............

It's a joke! Sheesh what's going on around here today...?

I don't drink tap water in London because it's almost crunchy. Yukky stuff.

Plastic packaging in today's news

Don't tomatoes contain lycopene that prevent cancer.

Fucking hell, I give up. We might as well not breathe 🙄

We might as well not breathe

Good idea, if you live in a city...

Oh great tinned tomatoes now have the same status a nutella.Tbh all sorts used to bother me but nowadays I'll happily take my chances and enjoy all food.

*as nutella

Oddly enough, someone I worked with a dad had cancer and was told to avoid tomatoes as there was do wthibg in them that was bad for him.

Nutella is pretty rank through!