Top Ten Toxic Fungi Infested Foods

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Top Ten Toxic Fungi Infested Foods

November 3rd, 2007

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Many fungi naturally produce a substance known as a mycotoxin

during their digestive process. These mycotoxins are toxic to

humans, and some are extremely toxic if ingested even in small

quantities.

There are some foods that naturally contain high levels of these

mycotoxins, and most of us aren't even aware that mycotoxins

exist, much less that we eat them in our food supply. The foods

that most often contain high concentrations of mycotoxins are

grain crops, nuts, sugars and cheese. We're going to take a look

at the most contaminated of these foods in this article.

Let's begin with the grain foods, since they normally exhibit

the higher levels. Corn, wheat, barley, and rye contain what is

known as " universal contamination " . What this really means, is

that they contain so many different fungi, that it is a

universal contamination. The levels of contamination are often

extremely high, and are carried over into the foods made from

these grains.

The next category of foods with high levels of contamination is

sugars. Sugars include sugar cane, sugar beets, and sorghum. Not

only do the sugars contain the contamination, they fuel the

growth of many of these fungi, because sugar is the food of

choice for fungi.

Nuts and the oils produced from these nuts are heavily laden

with contamination. In fact, one study found as many as 24

different forms of fungi in peanuts alone. The one thing worth

mentioning here, peanuts, and other nuts we consume, often are

in the shell, and there is no good way to even begin to

eliminate these fungi and mycotoxins from the shell nuts. So,

when you eat nuts still in the shell, there is a direct intake

of fungi and mycotoxins produced by these fungi.

The last food category on the list is cheese. Now, everyone

knows that cheese will grow mold. If you can see the mold

growing, you know the fungi is present throughout the cheese,

thanks to the fact that fungi are able to penetrate their host,

no matter the material: cheese, tile, grout, it doesn't matter.

The fungi can grow through the material. Here again, there is

direct consumption of the fungi that lives in the cheese.

It's truly amazing that we aren't in a state of continual

inbalance, given the variety of foods we eat that contain the

mycotoxin producing fungi.