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You can buy dried whole turmeric at Indian stores. Take it home and grind it to powder in a magic bullet. Based on the article, it's harder to hide the bright y

You can buy dried whole turmeric at Indian stores. Take it home and grind it to powder in a magic bullet. Based on the article, it's harder to hide the bright yellow lead chromate coloring when it's used on whole turmeric, versus ground turmeric.

OJFord 1y ago
Article explicitly says it was being added to the whole root during buffing, before grinding. It doesn't seem like something people need to worry about buying it at shops abroad imported properly though - when it was found in the US it was people bringing it home in their luggage.
- ashwinsundar 1y ago
  Yes but the coloring is easier to visually detect on the whole root, versus the powder (according to article). If you see bright yellow whole turmeric at a store, run away! FYI real, fresh turmeric is a dull orange color with a tan papery skin. It still stains the hands and cutting board when chopped, but that's normal. As the root dries, it turns a dull yellow-orange.
  - OJFord 1y ago
    I know; it stains teeth and toothbrushes too, requiring a mad amount of brushing and mouthwash to get approximately nowhere. ('My friend' hasn't bought it fresh since!)
    - OJFord 1y ago
      And @dead commenter, yes I'm well aware it's botanically a rhizome, just like ginger. Colloquially, even culinarily, that's not common and it's not particularly helpful to say, many people not knowing what it is, and it's certainly not an important distinction to make here. I also know tomatoes are fruits, but in the comment section on the importance of eating fruits it would hardly be helpful to give as an example 'yes it's very important to eat plenty of fruit, such as tomato' - it's needlessly confusing when 'apple' would suffice.
      - account42 1y ago
        Is there even any chase outside botany where rhizome vs. root is a meaningful distinction? At least tomatoes are sometimes treated as culinary fruit.
        OJFord 1y ago
        I cook a great deal and they could all be classified as fruits for all I care, I'm still going to use them for their flavours/properties which means probably none of them going in a fruit salad. No, I think it matters about as much as whether python is statically or dynamically typed to a user of an API.
  - AStonesThrow 1y ago
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  - account42 1y ago
    I wouldn't call the color of fresh turmeric "dull".
- Amezarak 1y ago
  It can definitely make it into US food. https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/news/outbreak-applesauce-pouches.html https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/news/outbreak-applesauce... There's an example of lead poisoning from cinnamon, another common problem spice. IIRC it was traced to a factory in Argentina.
  - account42 1y ago
    What's lead used for in cinnamon? It's not supposed to be a particularly colorful spice.

OJFord 1y ago

Article explicitly says it was being added to the whole root during buffing, before grinding. It doesn't seem like something people need to worry about buying it at shops abroad imported properly though - when it was found in the US it was people bringing it home in their luggage.

ashwinsundar 1y ago
Yes but the coloring is easier to visually detect on the whole root, versus the powder (according to article). If you see bright yellow whole turmeric at a store, run away! FYI real, fresh turmeric is a dull orange color with a tan papery skin. It still stains the hands and cutting board when chopped, but that's normal. As the root dries, it turns a dull yellow-orange.
- OJFord 1y ago
  I know; it stains teeth and toothbrushes too, requiring a mad amount of brushing and mouthwash to get approximately nowhere. ('My friend' hasn't bought it fresh since!)
  - OJFord 1y ago
    And @dead commenter, yes I'm well aware it's botanically a rhizome, just like ginger. Colloquially, even culinarily, that's not common and it's not particularly helpful to say, many people not knowing what it is, and it's certainly not an important distinction to make here. I also know tomatoes are fruits, but in the comment section on the importance of eating fruits it would hardly be helpful to give as an example 'yes it's very important to eat plenty of fruit, such as tomato' - it's needlessly confusing when 'apple' would suffice.
    - account42 1y ago
      Is there even any chase outside botany where rhizome vs. root is a meaningful distinction? At least tomatoes are sometimes treated as culinary fruit.
      - OJFord 1y ago
        I cook a great deal and they could all be classified as fruits for all I care, I'm still going to use them for their flavours/properties which means probably none of them going in a fruit salad. No, I think it matters about as much as whether python is statically or dynamically typed to a user of an API.
- AStonesThrow 1y ago
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- account42 1y ago
  I wouldn't call the color of fresh turmeric "dull".
Amezarak 1y ago
It can definitely make it into US food. https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/news/outbreak-applesauce-pouches.html https://www.cdc.gov/lead-prevention/news/outbreak-applesauce... There's an example of lead poisoning from cinnamon, another common problem spice. IIRC it was traced to a factory in Argentina.
- account42 1y ago
  What's lead used for in cinnamon? It's not supposed to be a particularly colorful spice.