Re: It's a textured fungus food that serves as a meat substitute

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I think the equivalent here in the U.S. is "tempeh." A "fermented" soy/rice product. I have eaten it, thinking I was doing myself a health favor, but even if you don't react instantly with a lifethreatening allergic reaction doesn't mean that you aren't getting a build up of mycotoxins in your blood that will attack you slowly or build up to a big problem. Plus if anything is fermented, then I don't think they are bothering to filter out the mold spores themselves. And mold spores are just waiting for a nice moist warm environment.

I read the articles about patulin in apples and fumonisins in grains and I just think that this is why people report feeling better when fresh foods are eaten. Of couse, I don't know a way to find out if a type of grain is fresh or not. Does irradiating grains with UV or radiation kill mold spores?

If it does, then how do we GET SOME? Grains can be contaminated as they wait on the stalk to be harvested!!

Until then, after all I've read in medical journals, all I want to eat are super fresh vegetables, fruits and some fish and other meats. Fresh eggs should be good.

Foods that can be stored for long periods of time to enable food distributors to not have losses are bad for us to eat because of preservatives and mold spores and mycotoxins.

It seems to me that the bad part, too, about being around "dead" mold (the spores) is that if our prior mold exposures suppressed our immune systems then if we ingest or breathe in mold spores, they may take up residence in us (aspergillosis of brain, lungs, liver).

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