Pesticide alarm in various Italian flours, the brands not to buy according to the latest test
Bread, cakes, biscuits and pasta: flour is one of those ingredients that cannot be missing in the pantry of a “real” Italian. But pay attention to chemical substances. Someone Italian flour brands in fact, despite the European directives and numerous controls, they still show small traces of pesticides. The online magazine conducted the last test The Lifebuoy which took into consideration a parterre of varied brandsfor a total of 14 samples of soft wheat flour, Manitoba and type 00.
Italian flours, the 14 samples used in the test
Here is the list of the flours analyzed: Barilla Flour type 00, Carrefour Manitoba, Casillo Manitoba Coop Manitoba flour, Conad type 00 flour, Count The Magic Flours 100% manitoba, Coop Manitoba flour, Esselunga type 00 flour, Garofalo W260 flour, Lidl Belbake soft wheat flour, Md Ca ‘Bianca Farina, Molino Spadoni American Flour Manitoba, Molino Rossetto Heart of manitoba, Selex Manitoba flour.
Contaminated Italian flours, the chemicals detected
From the tests the magazine found traces of glyphosate, and other pesticidesbut always within the legal limits, such as: Cypermethrin, insecticide considered possible carcinogen by the EPA, Piperonil butoxide, a synergist that increases the effectiveness of pyrethroids, deltamethrin, pyrethroid which can cause a “mild estrogenic activity in mammals”, pirimifos methyl, an insecticide that can interfere with the endocrine level.
Here are the worst brands of flour containing traces of pesticides
From the test here are the worst flours: Carrefour Manitoba: cypressine, piperonil, butoxide, pyrimifos-methyl, glyphosate were detected here. The origin of the grando on the label was not indicated. In second place it was placed instead Casillo Manitoba which recorded an almost sufficient score: 5.9. In third place Lidl Belbake Farina of soft wheat which reached sufficiency with a parts score of 6.9.
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