Would eating a 3.75Oz tin of sardines a day raise concerns about consuming too much mercury or lead?
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Your blood is already full of forever chemicals, microplastics and COVID protein spikes.
Eat on. Enjoy them while you can.
You sound like my kids when I tell them to clean their room. "But the rest of the apartment is also untidy!" Yeah but that doesn't mean we don't need to at least try.
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Because we pay them to burn the coal instead of burning it here
We pay them to produce products instead of producing them here, they CHOOSE to burn coal because it’s cheap but are rapidly building renewables
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To reduce your intake of metals, remove the sardines from the tin before eating them.
Meh. We're only concerned with heavy metal ingestion. Eat all the tin ya like.
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Meh. We're only concerned with heavy metal ingestion. Eat all the tin ya like.
Tin is a heavy metal.
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Tin is a heavy metal.
It's okay, the tins mostly use aluminum nowadays
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You sound like my kids when I tell them to clean their room. "But the rest of the apartment is also untidy!" Yeah but that doesn't mean we don't need to at least try.
Wait till they learn about climate change!
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Or anything else concerning, for that matter. (BPA, maybe?)
I eat a tin of these basically every day. Have been doing so for well over a year now.
No, I'm not doing the whole "sardine diet" or whatever it's called where you eat nothing but sardines. I'm proud to say I started eating sardines daily before that fad came up. And I eat a lot more than just sardines.
Anyway, I know "fish" in general tends to have high levels of mercury, but I've heard that basically the amount of harmful heavy metal sort of toxins in fish generally varies directly with the lifespan of the particular type of fish in question. (The longer it's been swimming around in mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) water and eating mercury-laden (or whatever-laden) stuff, the more mercury will build up in its system by the time its caught, cooked, put on a table, and consumed by a human.) And I've heard that sardines in particular are quite low in such harmful toxins. (Maybe anchovies would be even lower? Not sure.)
My googling for an answer to the question of whether the level of harmful stuff in sardines is so low that eating them daily wouldn't be an issue hasn't really yielded helpful results. So, why not ask here?
(I have heard that EVOO is "better for you" (whatever that means, specifically) than non-virgin olive oil. And the particular brand of sardines in "olive oil" I get don't say "virgin" anywhere on the packaging, so that might be a reason to switch brands. Not sure whether it's really worth it or not. And the other brands are always way more expensive.)
If you eat a tin of sardines each day, you have a lot of life choices to think about...
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It's okay, the tins mostly use aluminum nowadays
No tin is a different metal, you're thinking of Tim.
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It's okay, the tins mostly use aluminum nowadays
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Tin is actually pretty pricey, and it's rarer in the Earth's crust than many precious metals. It also is nothing like aluminum.
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Sardines are one of the few fish that has a very negligible amount of mercury in them.
Tuna, especially albacore, has way more mercury in it and you'd still need to be eating like 7 cans a day to risk mercury poisoning.
There should be no risk of lead poisoning unless the can they come in is made out of lead for some reason.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Really? I feel like I've had doctors tell me to avoid tuna more than once a week. (Not that it matters in my case)
