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by akavi 1094 days ago
As an ABCD, likewise. My mom told me to specifically buy turmeric at western grocery stores (as opposed to other spices, which could be had for better prices at Indian grocery stores) because of concerns around lead.
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You would hope, its common to find heavy metals in those seasonings too; https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb... IE Oregano is flagged across the board on the report.
tbf lead testing is pretty standard in Indian spice brands for a long time now, though for some reason the brands don't really advertise it. Reputable brands like MDH and Everest would be pretty safe.
What is an ABCD?
Lol, I never knew there was a Wikipedia article for this slang acronym that we use all the time.
Wikipedia has been backfilling slang terms lately, in competition with urbandictionary and knowyourmeme. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheugy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%2BRatio etc
Hopefully only the legit subset of urbandictionary.
Oh wow, I've seen this without knowing it had a name.