Pickles are Toxic!
Have you read the ingredients on a pickle jar lately?
Have you read the ingredients on a pickle jar lately? Pickling has been around for thousands of years to store food for a long time and make it delicious. You can purchase many pickled foods such as eggs, vegetables, cabbage as in sauerkraut, and of course, the cute cucumber.
Pickled cucumbers are versatile as they can be eaten by themselves and put into other foods. They are crunchy and wonderful to eat any time of year.
The original pickling process has to do with fermentation. Put vegetables in a container and add water, salt, and pressure to start the pickling process. This process creates a brine that ferments the cucumbers and makes them taste so amazing. Fermenting vegetables is popular in Asian countries and Macrobiotic diet. Fermented foods are high in beneficial bacteria/pro-biotics, which are important for our bodies to build B vitamins and help to prevent harmful organisms from getting a foothold.
However, if you go to a typical grocery store in the United States, you will find pickles on a store shelf with many more ingredients, most of which are not very healthy. It is challenging to find fermented pickles. Looking at most pickle jars in the store, you will see questionable ingredients, including added sugar, artificial flavors…
