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Food safety
Contaminants, additives and what testing has actually found, along with the limit of what a photograph can tell you about any of it.
- Food safety
Mercury in fish: which ones, and how often
Fish is among the best things you can eat and four species are worth avoiding outright. The rule is simple once you know it runs on size and lifespan.
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- Food safety
Arsenic in rice, and the cooking method that halves it
Rice takes up inorganic arsenic from soil and water more readily than any other grain. Two changes to how you cook it remove a large share of what is there.
4 min read
- Food safety
Why chocolate protein powder tests so much worse than vanilla
Same brand, same protein, one ingredient different, and up to 110 times the cadmium. The reason is that cocoa is among the most cadmium-dense foods in the supply.
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- Food safety
Protein powder and heavy metals: what the 2026 testing found
Consumer Reports tested 23 products and more than two-thirds exceeded its level of concern for lead. Contamination is higher than it was 15 years ago, and the pattern of which products test worst is unexpectedly consistent.
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