Consumer Reports urges USDA to remove Lunchables From National School Lunch Program
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CR tests find Lunchables and similar lunch kits contain relatively high levels of lead, cadmium and sodium; all but one contain harmful phthalates  WASHINGTON, D.C.…
  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    CR also detected at least one type of phthalate in every kit it tested, except for Lunchables Extra Cheesy Pizza.

    Pizza is still on the menu, let’s go!! But seriously, it’s so fucked that the lunchables they put in schools are somehow more toxic than the ones you can buy in stores.

    • bleepbloopbop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      13·
      7 months ago

      the lunchables they put in schools are somehow more toxic than the ones you can buy in stores.

      well they have more salt. But CR only hands-on tested the store bought versions so unknown if it has more or less lead, phthalates, etc

  • Mactan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    I remember seeing that apparently any spices can have a bunch of heavy metals in them too. wonder there’s anything safe anywhere

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    somehow my strategy of only eating the french fries and cookies (which were baked by the adorable lunch ladies every day and thus they’d save me the crispy ones because I bothered to ask & wasn’t a shithead to any of them ferret) the entirety of middle school paid off