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CARRIE71818

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ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« on: September 24, 2011, 05:40:41 pm »
BAD FOR OUR KIDS AND NOT HEALTHY SO WHY NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT THE PROBLEM.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2011, 05:58:46 am »
Thinks makes you wonder what else is in our foods that we are not aware!
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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2011, 06:41:34 pm »
Nothing is being done because there isn't a problem.  Dr. Oz was roundly criticized for perpetuating this myth. 

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2011, 05:21:06 am »
Arsenic is in a lot of things we put in our bodies.  If you worried about the small levels we ingest each day, you would starve and dehydrate to death.  In the apple juice it is in a low quantity.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2011, 11:44:57 am »
One more reason to pick up windfall apples instead of buying processed stuff.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2011, 01:42:01 am »
Give me reputable scientific evidence that the arsenic in apple juice can cause either negative short-term or long-term health effects and I may support your position. Even then I believe someone should be allowed to drink poison on their own property to the point of death if they really want too. I really don't see how it affects me that much.
« Last Edit: October 03, 2011, 01:49:54 am by Flackle »

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2011, 05:37:06 am »
Thank you for the information about apple juice, this will be one less thing I need to buy. What is really safe for our kids today?

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2011, 06:29:01 am »
BAD FOR OUR KIDS AND NOT HEALTHY SO WHY NOTHING IS BEING DONE ABOUT THE PROBLEM.


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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2011, 08:42:18 am »
Thank you for the information about apple juice, this will be one less thing I need to buy. What is really safe for our kids today?

If you really take the nutritional information from some random person who is making claims with absolutely no evidence and types in all caps seriously then I'd suggest you rethink about who you pay attention to when it comes to your health.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2011, 08:19:02 am »
Thank you for the information about apple juice, this will be one less thing I need to buy. What is really safe for our kids today?

If you really take the nutritional information from some random person who is making claims with absolutely no evidence and types in all caps seriously then I'd suggest you rethink about who you pay attention to when it comes to your health.

You are amazing. :)

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2011, 09:22:00 pm »
This is just one more reason to ONLY drink FRESH JUICE. The kind that you make with apples and a juicer.

The store bouight juice is DEAD. It has NO ENZYMES, and is usually just a little juice and sugar and water. READ it and see.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2011, 09:28:30 pm »
Give me reputable scientific evidence that the arsenic in apple juice can cause either negative short-term or long-term health effects and I may support your position. Even then I believe someone should be allowed to drink poison on their own property to the point of death if they really want too. I really don't see how it affects me that much.
Why do you need a pile of evidence to understand that ARSENIC ( which is posion) is detrements to your health??

No one is in PERFECT HEALTH today and tomorrow they SUDDENLY wake up with CANCER or some other FATAL DISEASE !! We get sick gradually ( little by little) as we slowly take in the various posions...


What if I made your favorite dish, and told you that I  put JUST a little doggie poop in it, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU EAT???

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2011, 09:50:06 pm »
THAT IS SO TRULY YOU JUST REALLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT FOODS NOW DAYS.

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2011, 06:03:00 pm »
Why do you need a pile of evidence to understand that ARSENIC ( which is posion) is detrements to your health??
I don't need evidence to understand that Arsenic, by itself, in significant enough quantities is detrimental to my health. What I request is reputable scientific evidence that the arsenic in apple juice, if consumed at reasonable levels, is detrimental to my health both short-term and long-term. Since you fail to supply such information I did some research on my own. Here is some data from Dr. Oz's own website, the person who restarted this whole arsenic craze: http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/university-arizona-study?page=4#copy

In order to properly understand this chart we need to break it down and understand all the symbols. Its first important to note the difference between the different forms of arsenic as indicated by www.ead.anl.gov/pub/doc/arsenic.pdf. Inorganic arsenic (denoted by as III and as V) are the most common forms of arsenic. They come from rocks and enter the earth's water naturally. The body can easily take in these forms and metabolizes (through the metabolism) them naturally into their two organic forms. In said report it is stated that both dimethyl arsenic acid (DMA) and monomethyl arsenic acid (MMA) of arsenic (being the two organic forms) are absorbed (about 90%) through the gastrointestinal tract and we dispose of it through our urine. Organic arsenic is simply easier for our bodies to naturally process. Now that we know the difference of organic and inorganic arsenic to really be negligible since our bodies can naturally handle either form we have a better understanding of what those arsenic symbols actually mean.

The chart states that the amount of arsenic in apple juice ranges from 10.67 ug/L (micro grams per liter) and 29.52 (micro grams per liter). These really are not results that are way abnormal. Grape juice has anywhere from 6.96 ug/L to 47.59 ug/L. Although 47.59 would probably be ignored since it is nearly twice as big as any other result, if we averaged the result of apples juice, grape juice:

(ALL FOLLOWING NUMBERS ARE UG/L)
Apple juice: 18.24
Grape juice: 20.51 (if we removed the 47.59 test result we would get an avergae of 13.65. Of course if we removed the 20.52 from the apple juice's result we would get an average of 15.42)
Beef Broth: 10.88

So now that we know the average amount of arsenic in apple juice let us compare it to, say, water. The chart that we found does not do this so I will use some other sources. Both EPA (http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/arsenic/index.cfm) and FDA (http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm271595.htm) set the standard for drinking water be 10 ppb (parts per billion). (Remember that natural spring contain close to these amounts, probably more since they come into contact with inorganic arsenic from rocks containing arsenic that are broken down by erosion)  Of course to compare this to our findings from grape and apple juice we need to convert ug/L to ppb. The problem with this conversion is that density plays a factor. The density of water is of course close to 1 g/cm^3 (http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_water.htm) and the density of arsenic is 5.727 g/cm^3(http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=density+of+arsenic&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) remember that arsenic is a METALOID so it would have a different density. Micrograms/Liter does not take into affect density, while parts per billion does. Thus this conversion is difficult to make. I think Dr. Oz assumed that you could simply go for 1 UG/L = 1 PPB so water has less arsenic than apple juice. But this doesn't actually hold up.

I am no organic scientist, or chemist, so I really don't understand how to do an actual conversion. I have yet to find a comprehensive study of this specifically on the Internet, but it would be interesting if someone can. I'd say its easier to just assume that the difference is really negligible. Drinking too much of anything can be harmful. If I intake to much iron it can be deadly, but I need iron to survive. Same goes for arsenic.

Let me also say that the FDA test for juice of levels above 23 PPB. Although 23 PPB is higher than 10 PPB, I don't think we consume as much apple juice as we do water. Water is found in apple juice, so its safe to assume that although water might have a lower amount, it affects us more.

No one is in PERFECT HEALTH today and tomorrow they SUDDENLY wake up with CANCER or some other FATAL DISEASE !! We get sick gradually ( little by little) as we slowly take in the various posions...
I agree. No on is in perfect health. No one has been in perfect health, and there will never be someone with 100% perfect health. A doctor may say you have perfect health, but they are being very general. Cancer is actually really difficult to prevent, and many people have died from cancer way before it was discovered. Its a fact of life, and has been for millions of years. People have gotten illness and sickness from many things for thousands of years. The rate of death for these illnesses and the amount of knowledge we have of our bodies and how it deals with sickness has led to the discovery of the cause and treatment for these illnesses. It hasn't shown an increase in the amount of illness and anyone telling you such doesn't understand progression.
What if I made your favorite dish, and told you that I  put JUST a little doggie poop in it, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU EAT???
This is clearly a straw man argument and I will not respond to it further.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2011, 06:04:41 pm by Flackle »

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Re: ARSENIC IN APPLE JUICE
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2011, 07:54:56 am »
Give me reputable scientific evidence that the arsenic in apple juice can cause either negative short-term or long-term health effects and I may support your position. Even then I believe someone should be allowed to drink poison on their own property to the point of death if they really want too. I really don't see how it affects me that much.
Why do you need a pile of evidence to understand that ARSENIC ( which is posion) is detrements to your health??

No one is in PERFECT HEALTH today and tomorrow they SUDDENLY wake up with CANCER or some other FATAL DISEASE !! We get sick gradually ( little by little) as we slowly take in the various posions...


What if I made your favorite dish, and told you that I  put JUST a little doggie poop in it, HOW MUCH WOULD YOU EAT???
There is poop in your food.  There are also insect parts, hair, and other contaminants.  The USDA food standards allow some in the food we eat.  It is impossible to keep the food supply 100% free of any contaminants.  Its not a big deal.

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