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Is aluminium foil is safe for food wrapping? - Keganhirl - 06-28-2019
Food wrapped in aluminum foil is not likely to pick up much aluminum unless the foods are acidic (think tomato sauce or a salad with a vinegar dressing). However, cooking in aluminum foil will increase the amount of the metal leached into the food.
It’s not clear whether such levels of leached aluminum are harmful. Aluminum is found naturally in a lot of foods (it is one of the earth’s most abundant elements) as well as in some antacids. The body does a good job excreting such levels of aluminum.
There is some speculation that aluminum may be involved in Alzheimer's disease or inflammatory bowel disease, but the evidence is contradictory. Most toxicologists consider the usual low levels of aluminum to be safe (see, for example, Systematic review of potential health risks posed by pharmaceutical, occupational and consumer exposures to metallic and nanoscale aluminum, alumin... - PubMed - NCBI)
That said cooking an acidic sauce in aluminum or storing acidic foods in aluminum containers may contribute off-flavors and probably should be avoided. But other uses are probably fine.
RE: Is aluminium foil is safe for food wrapping? - aadaasdark8072 - 06-28-2019
whenever we visit doctor, he tells us about the deficiency of minerals in our body.
these include iron sodium potassium magnesium manganese copper.
but has ever any doctor or health specialist ever recommended that there is deficiency of aluminium in your body.
no, because aluminium is not absorbed in our body from our food, neither is it present in our food as plants does not absorb aluminium from our surroundings.
the reason being that aluminium is indigestible by our digestive system.
it can not be converted from its aluminium nitride or aluminium oxide form into aluminium ion in our body. nor does these compounds dissolve in the digestive fluids nor in the blood. .
as per the law of diffusion, every element tries to disperse itself and therefore no matter weather food is hot or cold, boiled or roasted, some percentage of it is diffused into our food when we use aluminium foil. diffusion is however different from dissolution.
our body works on the mechanism of dissolving compounds using enzymes but diffused substances have no active role in our body. in fact they interfere with working mechanism of our body and causes cancer.
now one may ask that why do sovmany ppl wrap their food in aluminium, there must be some kind of history behind this.
yes there is one reason inwill tellyou.
in golden era ppl use to wrap and cover food in silver. even till this day sweets are wrapped iand covered with silver.
those who were innocent did not know the difference