cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14248920
In a spirit of adventure I tried tofu skins the other day. Searching through the numerous options at our large Asian market, it looked like we found one that didn’t have the California lead advisory statement on the package - but later found one buried in the fine print.
We ate them anyway, and really like them, but wonder why they have lead. Internet searches so far haven’t yielded any answers.
Does anyone here know why they contain lead?
PS / TIL: tofu skins apparently are not be confused with tofu curls.
I wish cross posting cross posted comments.
this ‘reposting of the same things across many instances’ thing has a lot of room for improvement on the fediverse. merging the discussions sounds like a good step to me.
I also wish the crosspost edits would sync over instances
I agree with the poster in the other instance, probably in the water. 0.5 micrograms/L is 10 times less than what is considered the max acceptable limit in drinking water in Canada.
The city of Montreal put 530 kg of lead into the St. Lawrence in 2022 through the wastewater plant water discharge and had about 2,500 kg in their solids. The effluent was on average 0.652 microgram/L, which means that the stuff coming in to the plant would have been like 3 microgram/L.
I’m not saying the soybeans are farmed in wastewater, but it’s not so absurd to think lead from irrigation water would accumulate.
