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I used to eat these in that famous nut mix in the blue can. My ears would get crazy itchy deep inside so I tested each nut in the mix separately until I realized it was the Brazil nuts that caused the itching. My sister freaked out and told me to never eat them again because I could die. I never eat them anymore. They taste good though.
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As a Brazilian, I'm surprised. Never heard of this potential risk ny entire life, and it's common for people here to eat a lot more than 7 in one go. Fun fact: in Brazil those are called "catanha do Pará" (Pará nuts), and Pará is a state in Brazil. When I learned they were called Brazil nuts abroad I realized they were actually from here, it wasn't just our name for it.
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There's also the radioactivity thing...
Fun story: Some classmates and I were playing around with a geiger counter in an x-ray diffraction lab (waiting for some samples to run). Talk about radioactive foods came up bc someone had a banana in their backpack 😂 I mentioned Brazil nuts and how there's an intake limit due to that excess radiation (on top of the selenium toxicity). One guy was very shocked and mentioned that he often went through a whole large bag of those in a day (a lot like the guy in the video, but happening almost every week). Still joking around, we started scanning him with the geiger counter. ... It got a lot less funny when the area over his kidneys was clearly making noise.
We scanned him all over, moved him to different parts of the room (since it could be a very localised equipment leak? I guess?), scanned everyone else in the room,... and his kidneys were still the only thing making that geiger counter crackle.
It was nothing too bad, I'm sure if we had a bunch of bananas instead of a single banana it would crackle about as much, but it was still a bit worrying
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But on the up side, I've read that Brazil nuts are one product that can't be industrially farmed and thus is helping to justify keeping natural rain/forests. Their higher price point means there is more incentive to keep the wild wild, harvest sustainably, and get fairer compensation to workers. So yeah, just eat them responsibly.
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I bought a raw food cookbook once when experimenting with that diet. Thankfully I knew about Selenium toxicity due to excessive consumption of Brazil nuts because some of the recipes called for 1 to 2 cups. I ended up throwing the cookbook in the trash because that alarmed me and I was worried there was something I might not know and I make myself sick with another recipe.
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I use to eat these a lot and never got sick. I read that Brazil nuts don't innately have high amounts of selenium but it just happens to be where they grow, the soil is high in selenium or causes them to gather high amounts. You could potetially grow a brazil nut tree somewhere else and it wouldn't be very high in selenium at all.
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@ryanmcgarry-winne5015
1 month ago
I guess this explains why even the “fancy” mixed nut containers, with all the nut varieties, only has like 3 or 4 Brazil nuts mixed in…to keep people from essentially OD’ing
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