Fruits, Meat, Fish & even Milk naturally contains Formalin; but not all

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13 Jul 2018 08:08 PM

Formalin means chemical called formaldehyde. Reports say that this chemical contains naturally in the environment. It can naturally be found in food items like fruits, vegetables, meats, fish and even milk. And the content per kilogram is from 2 milligram up to 140 milligram.



Here is some information we googled and collected from quite a few authentic websites, which claims they belong to the government organizations in the US and Hong Kong as well as the World Health Organisation.

These are all in milligrams per kg. Let’s first go to the fruits. 

FRUITS

                                                Mg/Kg

Apple                                    6.30 to 22.3

Banana                                 16.3

Beetroot                              35

Onion                                    11

Cabbage                              5.3

Carrot                                   10

Cauliflower                         26.9

Cucumber                           3.7

Grape                                   22.4

Potato                                  19.5

Tomato                                                13.3

Watermelon                      9.2

Dried mushrooms            100 to 406

In meat, Formalin content is like this.

MEAT

Beef                                      4.6

Pig                                          5.8 to 20

Sheep                                   8

Poultry                                 2.5 to 5.7

Processed meat                               20.7

Formalin is also found in dairy products.

DAIRY PRODUCTS

Goat’s milk                         1

Cow’s milk                          3.3

Cheese                                 3.3

In the fish, there are very items which show formalin content in it. They are

SEAFOOD

Cod                                        4.6 to 34

Raw shrimp                        1 to 2.4

Squids                                   1.8

Fish ball                                6.8

Crustacean                         1 to 98

Bombay Duck                    140

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