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Re:Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecula... by rsync on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @05:54PM (#20814815)
"According to the finding of the research, any amount of Pb, Hg and Sn were not detected in the organic certified nuts. In the organic certified nuts, the levels ranged between 5.53-123.78 ppb Cd, 8.22-16.62 ppm Cu, 0.24-1.86 ppm Ni, 15.03-46.37 ppm Zn, 444.1-810.6 ppb Cr, 22.06-67.42 ppm Fe and 1.24-3.14 ppb As."[1]

Perhaps you are speaking of conventional (non organic) nuts and seeds ? I would not consider consuming those.

[1] https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20183271188

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Re:Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecula... by wallace_f on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @09:42PM (#20816132)
Why would organic nuts have less heavy metal toxicity than conventional?

Your link is broken btw.

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Re:Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecula... by jobigoud on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:53AM (#20818035)
Based on the quote I tracked it down to this paper: "Determination of heavy metal contents in some organic certified dried nuts". I can only access the abstract, couldn't find it on sci-hub. The study is focused on organic nuts though, it's not specifically an organic vs non-organic.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325951651_Determina...

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