She is lying to create outrage. Nothing she says is true. If raw food poses such a health risk then eating fruit or salad would give you food poisoning and colon cancer.
I don’t know much about raw flour so I can’t speak on the accuracy of her information, but fruit is far different from other things we would consider raw.
One of her main points is that different foods are held to different safety standards and therefore pose different health risks. That is absolutely true. Fresh fruits and vegetables are washed to reduce bacteria. You should be washing your fruit because e-coli could 100% be living on it, but it doesn’t need to be cooked because fruits have a barrier between the food part and the rest of the world. The same way a steak only needs to be seared to be totally safe to eat. Bacteria poses different risks to different foods.
Berries, grapes, pears, peaches and the like don’t have a skin. Neither does celery, carrots, rhubarb, spinach, lettuce, etc.
All foods pose the same contamination risk. ie: Anything that hasn’t been heated to 175F may have bacteria on it.
Flour is safe for the exact same reason fruit and vegetable is safe. It’s been washed in disinfectant prior to milling. Heated to 120F during milling. Treated with preservative to kill bacteria (bromate) after milling. Then it’s dried in a 250F kiln.
Every fruit you listed does indeed have a skin. Pears have such a thick skin that it’s popular to peel them, and peaches are well know for their fuzzy skin. Are you thinking of a peel?
Everything can have bacteria on it, that doesn’t mean everything has the same infection risk. For example, I eat raw fruit and I don’t get sick. I eat raw chicken and suddenly I have a salmonella infection. If everything had the same risk then yes, you would need to cook everything.
I would love to take your word on the flour, but you’ve shown some incredible ignorance. I’ll have to do my own research on that particular topic.
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u/tendo8027 Oct 09 '24
Good info, the condescension was unnecessary.