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Natural News Labs publishes heavy metals test results for seaweeds and sea vegetables: Kelp, Kombu, Wakame, Nori, Dulse and more

Tuesday, February 11, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: seaweeds, heavy metals, wakame

Seaweeds

(NaturalNews) Continuing our mission to inform and empower consumers with heavy metals transparency for foods and superfoods, Natural News has just published heavy metals laboratory testing results for over 20 seaweed and sea vegetable products.

All results are available at the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, which also publishes results for vegan protein products, breakfast cereals and more.

If you've ever wanted to know the heavy metals content of seaweed snacks and sea vegetables sold by companies like Trader Joe's, Eden Foods, Kirkland and Maine Coast, results are now available showing concentrations of lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, aluminum, copper and even zinc (a nutritive mineral).

Wakame from New Zealand the cleanest by far

As you can see from our results, there is a huge difference in concentrations of lead in seaweeds depending on the region from which it is harvested.

For example, New Zealand Wakame turned out to contain zero lead, while the Fueru brand wakame seaweed from the Wel Pac company in China shows a whopping 0.851 ppm of lead.

Fueru brand seaweed was also among the very highest in cadmium concentrations, although the cadmium levels we've found in some rice protein products were actually higher.

As far as mercury goes, the highest level we found was in a kelp powder product, but most seaweeds were near zero on mercury concentrations (less than 10 ppb).

Kombu flakes showed the highest arsenic concentrations among seaweeds, and the levels were quite substantial at over 100 ppm. Our tests do not differentiate between organic and inorganic arsenic, however.

Copper was relatively low among most products, but the Kelp Help product showed copper at over 80 ppm which is the highest I've ever seen in any product tested so far (across all categories). However, the effects of this are sharply reduced by the high levels of zinc found in the product (see below) because zinc blocks copper absorption.

For aluminum, Kelp Granules from Maine Coast were the highest by far at over 900 ppm. However, the dietary fibers of kelp are actually very good at binding to aluminum and retaining it during digestion. Our Metals Retention Factor tests showed that this 900 ppm of Aluminum in Kelp Granules was almost entirely retained by the kelp and not released during digestion.

At the same time, Kelp Help was also highest in dietary zinc -- by far -- meaning this kelp is a very solid source of dietary zinc. And because zinc blocks copper absorption, this means the copper level of the kelp is not really much of a concern in this particular case.

See more heavy metals results for foods, superfoods and dietary supplements at:
http://labs.naturalnews.com

Here's my video overview of the seaweed lab results:


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

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