Pesticide alarm in biscuits: the four worst brands, according to the latest test
Start the day with a good cookie it may no longer be a healthy choice. In fact, according to the latest Italian test carried out by the magazine The Lifebuoy many products of (well-known) brands, private labels and even bio, contain within them chemical substances carcinogenic such as: disodium diphosphate, sweeteners, acrylamide, don and pesticides. The protagonists of the test were: Galletti Barilla Mulino BiancoBiscuits CarrefourColussi il Granturchese, Shortbread biscuits with sugar grains ConadShortbread with sugar grains CoopShortbread with sugar grains Dolciando EurospinShortbread with sugar grains long S, Galbusera So good with no added sugar, Gentilini Novellini, Shortbread the treasures of the oven TodisLe Bon shortbread biscuits with granulated sugar MdSweet measure with no added sugar, Naturasì Novellini, Real Forno Fior di Zucchero Lidl, Saiwa classic gold. Unwanted substances such as: pesticides, acrylamide, mycotoxins, too much sugar and salt.
Pesticide alarm in biscuits: the test results
What then emerged from the cookie tests? Let’s start with the positive notes: all products are excellent from the point of view of mycotoxinsthis means less profiler than fungi and molds. We now come to more critical aspects: traces of Donone mycotoxin problematic in particular for children; acrylamideprocess contaminant found in various shortbread, as well as several pesticides. As regards the nutritional values, an excess of salt and sugar.
Furthermore The Lifebuoy he specified that “more than half of shortbread biscuits do not include any suspicious ingredients in their recipe, despite the fact that they are ultra-processed foods par excellence. There are still some companies – Eurospin, Conad, Lidl, Todis and MD – that use palm oil while some opt for rapeseed (Mulino Bianco and Lidl). And there are those who have replaced sugar with sweeteners ”. Recapitalizing, here are the found (unwelcome) ingredients: palm or rapeseed oil, disodium diphosphate, sweeteners such as maltitol and maltitol syrup, acrylamide, don and pesticides. Overall, at the brand level, biscuits finished the ranking Novellini with milk and honey of the Gentilini which collected only 3.5 points, penalized for the presence of acrylamide, Don and some pesticides. Finally, they did better (but slightly), with only 4.5 points, three other references: Conad, Misura, Naturasì.
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