I was washing some shrimp today and had all kinds of suds coming up in the bowl. So I am rinsing and rinsing and more foam and more suds. After about 10 rinses I am thinking... are they putting soap in my shrimp? It sure looks like soap and a LOT of it, more than the suds I get when washing dishes. So being the semi busy body and the conscientious consumer that I am, I call the meat market. He didn't know and called his supplier. The answer was they had put this tripolyphosphate in the shrimp as a preservative and to keep the color, and it will foam like soap he said. He said it is FDA approved and with that I made a sarcastic "Oh yeah right" remark.
I haven't gone far in my search, but wiki said this:
STPP is a solid inorganic compound used in a large variety of household cleaning products, mainly as a builder, but also in human foodstuffs, animal feeds, industrial cleaning processes and ceramics manufacture. STPP is widely used in regular and compact laundry detergents and automatic dishwashing detergents (in powder, liquid, gel and/or tablet form), toilet cleaners, surface cleaners, and coffee urn cleaners
Since it said "animal feeds" I thought I would run this by you. Is this disturbing to anyone except myself?
What do you think? Do they think I want to eat this? :(
Karen
Sodium tripolyphosphate toxic or not?
Well Karen.. I am not a brain or anything.. and lately I have been noticing what I am eating and I am just not real happy about it..
With that said.. it doesn't seem on the surface your STPP food grade is dangerous..
http://www.adityabirlachemicals.com/products/sodium_tripolyphosphate_food.htm very interesting site with msds sheet attached..
It's just another chemical added so we in the midwest can have shrimp 3 weeks after the catch it and it can still be called fresh.. I guess if your a fish eater living here you shoulf be thankful for the stuff.
You can bet your life I will be really washing my shrimps from now on....
oh, great, mor eapproved chemicals in our food supply. i wonder if there is an abbrev. for it i should be wathcing for on livestock feed labels?
TF if that isnt the truth.
trisodium phosphate - which looks like the same basic chemicals as you have used to be used as a cleaner. It is almost impossible to find now, because phosphates clog up septic and sewer systems.
If you really wanted to eat the shrimp you might flood it again in clear water and add maybe a little vinegar to cut the suds.
Or, return it to the store and tell them you want your money back.
Taking it back to the store would have been one big hassle, so I just continued to rinse it and gave it to the chickens. Didn't tell them it had sudsing preservatives. They loved it.
I just don't understand why these companies couldn't just take the shrimp and freeze it immediately and sell it to us like that. Is that too difficult? How about old fashioned canning with glass jars, wouldn't that work?
I'm not a specialist on seafood, but I have enough common sense to know our bodies don't need those chemicals, they are not a vitamin or a mineral. I have spent years trying to detox my body, just so I can live and not be in pain. So far so good.
I'm back to thinking about NWO and their plans to exterminate most of the population on earth. Before you laugh, study.
Speaking of cleaning agents. Yesterday I read that coca cola was good for cleaning pans. So I took the coke I bought the other day to clean the rust from the bolts and poured a little in a pan I used to grill a steak yesterday. They were right, a few hours later the black crust has turned to brown liquid. Pretty amazing. No scrubbing necessary. Now I know what coke is good for, it's for cleaning. :D I also read that it is good to clean floors with and tile grout.
Wonder how it would work on the bathtub, or the pans where I've scrambled eggs. Might be worth an experiment or two.
Have a good day,
Karen
The curator's byline is: try in a small inconspicuous place first.
I remember my 7th grade teacher (a while ago) telling me how he cleaned the rust of the fender of his old chevey truck with coca cola.
If you are trying to detox and live a healthy life you had better plan to grow and preserve your own food. Its very hard to find healthy food, unless you are producing it yourself.
There are a lot of people here who are sick: obese, cancer, lethargic, diabetes with complications, and what have you. If you go to the local grocery store you will see why.
They should put up a sign, if you don't have cancer yet you soon will have it. Just eat what is in this store.
So true.
Actually I am trying to grow some vegetable and even trying to start some fruit and nut trees by seeds. I have two cherry, two apricot, and a peach so far. I'm so pleased. :)
I grew some corn and okra last year, but started them too late. At least I got some experience in watching them come up and grow. They are easy ones. Don't know what has happened to my other plants this year, unless I bought bad seed off of ebay. It was supposed to be heirloom. None of it came up. So I bought more seed and haven't planted it yet. :( I do have nice looking potatoes, corn, and squash. My cantelope, watermelon and cucumber are still small, so not sure if they will produce.
The co op section has some gro bags they are selling for a very reasonable price. I ordered with them yesterday. My reasoning wasn't so much about food safety at the time, but thinking the prices may go up so high nobody can afford to buy it, like gasoline. I just don't want to go hungry.
With lupus, my energy level comes and goes, so I don't always get to do what I want when I want. It's making this more difficult. Maybe I'll get the hang of it all soon. I am learning and enjoying it anyway, and DG makes life so nice, such sweet people here.
I want to get the book about growing organic in all seasons. People say it's a good one.
Karen