Guest guest Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 , It would be interesting to find out about food storage. I was ALARMED last year to see large mountains of corn sitting alongside the highway in vast mounds for many many many months. Not in a silo, just piled along the highway near the RR tracks, simply covered with an array of tarps. Was the mountains of corn food grade corn meant for human consumption? Or feed? Or biofuel? or ? I don't know. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Slaya <slayadragon@...> wrote: >> > > > > I read of one mold diet that said oats were ok to eat for moldies. > > > > Is this solid or mere uneducated rumor? > > > > I'm skipping breakfast to find out:) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Jeri, I grew up in Illinois on a grain farm. When the grain elevators run out of storeage bins because the trains can't move it out fast enough they store it on the ground like you saw. Yes, it can and will grow mold if it gets wet, meaning the moisture content increases above a certain threshold (don't remember what that is). It is carefully monitored so corn with too much moisture can be run through dryers so it won't spoil when in the silos. If mold begins to grow before it is dried then drying stops the growth but isn't designed to remove the mold growth and spores. A lot of corn is used as cattle feed and now for ethanol. I don't know what, if anything, food processors do to remove mold or the mycotoxins. I do know there are limits to the mycotoxin levels for foods but in my opinion they are too high. Sort of like the allowable amounts of dirt, bugs, insects, rodent hair and rodent droppings which are allowable in " safe, clean " food. Or the amount of e-coli allowed in water and still be consider " pure. " So we can be reactive to either the corn itself, or mold on the corn, or the allergens and toxins from the allowable level of impurities, or all the above. No wonder managing our condition can be so incredibly difficult, if not impossible at times. Carl Grimes Healthy Habitats LLC ----- , It would be interesting to find out about food storage. I was ALARMED last year to see large mountains of corn sitting alongside the highway in vast mounds for many many many months. Not in a silo, just piled along the highway near the RR tracks, simply covered with an array of tarps. Was the mountains of corn food grade corn meant for human consumption? Or feed? Or biofuel? or ? I don't know. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Slaya <slayadragon@...> wrote: >> > > > > I read of one mold diet that said oats were ok to eat for moldies. > > > > Is this solid or mere uneducated rumor? > > > > I'm skipping breakfast to find out:) > > > ---------- The following section of this message contains a file attachment prepared for transmission using the Internet MIME message format. If you are using Pegasus Mail, or any other MIME-compliant system, you should be able to save it or view it from within your mailer. If you cannot, please ask your system administrator for assistance. ---- File information ----------- File: DEFAULT.BMP Date: 15 Jun 2009, 23:10 Size: 358 bytes. Type: Unknown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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