Our goal was to select three days of menus from among the ultra-processed menu from the NIH study, then “reverse engineer” them to be prepared with minimally processed ingredients. Our selection process was shaped by which meals would best fit the definition of a “typical American.” Among those meals, final selections were based on which […]
Archive | Reagents: Consumables & Food
Study Recipes
Perdue Study Recipes 2019 Kate’s Pasta Dough Ingredients: 280g 00 flour 25g for dusting surfaces 168g whole eggs 32g egg yolks 1.45g salt 7g Baking Olive Oil Directions: Measure ingredients. Make a well on a clean workspace with the flour Make sure the sides are high enough to accommodate liquid ingredients […]
Best Practices: Spices/Black pepper
Best practices for spices and pepper mills.
Why we did not include plant based milk substitutes
Plant-based milk — while growing rapidly — represents only 15% of milk consumption (Nielsen data) and is therefore not yet part of the typical American diet. Even more importantly for this study, plant-based milk substitutes are ultra-processed, industrially synthesized products which involve substantial contact with plastic chemicals. In addition to being a typical part of […]
Best practices – Baking powder versus yeast
Commercially purchased bread has numerous plastic contamination routes in preparation and packaging — some known and probably others unknown. Best kitchen practices, therefore, demand that bread be baked from known ingredients. One of those ingredients a rising agent — yeast or baking powder. Because investigators could not determine the provenance of yeast — processing and […]
Sourcing the Menu: Avoiding Microplastics, biosolids and nano particles
NOTE: This is an edited version of portions of Appendices 3 of the “Revised Stealth Syndromes Study Protocol as approved by the University of California San Francisco Medical School Committee on Human Research. See also: Micro- and Nanoplastics: Health Implications As terrible as those plastic-polluted ocean photos are, your body is even more contaminated by […]