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TIL that Ancient Romans added lead syrup to wine to improve color, flavor, and to prevent fermentation. The average Roman aristocrat consumed up to 250μg of lead daily. Some Roman texts implicate c... (www.sciencedirect.com)
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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There will be a post in 2000 years about us eating Teflon.

[–] shinjiikarus@mylem.eu 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I fear even asking … do we eat Teflon? 😣

[–] yata@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Every time you cook in cooking ware coated with teflon you do indeed ingest some teflon, regardless of whether you use plastic cooking utensils or not.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not on purpose, but yes we eat a lot more than is okay. Turns out that it's not actually as safe to cook on as we thought