I think i can taste chemicals in some "safe" foods, iin?

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Whenever I eat some canned or dried fruit, stuff that's supposed to be edible with out washing, and it has a slight chemical taste to it, I wonder if all the pesticides were washed off before it was processed. Home made foods, made with natural ingredients grown in my garden, don't have those weird tastes, so I'm very suspicious about some store-bought things.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    10 years ago

    Tinny taste?

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    • Matter_and_Energy
      10 years ago

      Yeah. Canned food always has a slight metallic taste.

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      • Terence_the_viking
        10 years ago

        It shouldn't taste like that take it back from whence it came.

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        • Matter_and_Energy
          10 years ago

          They're all like that though.

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          • Terence_the_viking
            10 years ago

            then send the shop back to the factory.

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    I notice that too. Most food isn't done correctly.

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  • q25t
    10 years ago

    Check out the placebo effect and confirmation bias.

    Coming from someone who's seen quite a few chemical processing plants, it is VERY unlikely that there would be any residual chemicals left on anything that was marked food grade. There are thousands of pages of regulations and audits regularly to make sure all processes are up to code.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago

      What if the food processing plant is in a nation with lesser regulations and audits? Cheap food has to come from somewhere and maybe they don't have the same standards...?

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      • q25t
        10 years ago

        If you're shipping food out of the country, it needs to pass the regulations of both countries. Labor laws are really the difference in manufacturing.

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  • AnimalCrosser
    10 years ago

    Though most processed food tastes different, usually worse, than normal food, it is normal for it to have a strange taste. I'm not certain if your worry about its safety is normal or not though. Chances are you're just slightly paranoid about your safety, that is a phase many go through at random points in their lives. So, all in all its probably normal.

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