It’s also nice to know how your meals were cooked. Is the restaurant using cheap quality spices that might have heavy metals in them? Are they heating up sauces in plastic liners and leeching an insane amount of microplastics? How about their Teflon pans, are they all scratched up?
Not to mention employee hygiene and unsanitary conditions.
That one has been top of mind for me this week, because my kid’s pediatrician mentioned that they had found dangerously high lead levels in another patient recently, but the source wasn’t the local water, it was heavy spices used in middle-eastern foods.
It’s also nice to know how your meals were cooked. Is the restaurant using cheap quality spices that might have heavy metals in them? Are they heating up sauces in plastic liners and leeching an insane amount of microplastics? How about their Teflon pans, are they all scratched up?
Not to mention employee hygiene and unsanitary conditions.
Oh great, more food-related horrors I have to consider: https://deeprootsathome.com/heavy-metals-in-popular-spice-brands-see-which-ones/
That one has been top of mind for me this week, because my kid’s pediatrician mentioned that they had found dangerously high lead levels in another patient recently, but the source wasn’t the local water, it was heavy spices used in middle-eastern foods.