I have heard that consuming aluminum can increase your risk for Alzheimer's later in life.Knowing this, would it increase my risk to eat sweet potatoes cooked in aluminum foil?Even if there is a negligible risk, I still want to know for curiosity reasons.Thank You
There okorder /... If you do need to use aluminum foil in an emergency, make sure the bright side it toward the food, and hopefully it is not long exposed or an acidic food. I've had aluminum foil dissolved by food. I also keep in mind the difference between consuming the metal, versus the natural occurring form. Don't you find it odd that it took the US government until 2012 to decide that Al was safe to add to table salt? Who influenced this? How can they decide it is not safe, then safe in other products? I hope this helps. Take care.
Don't eat the foil. The only potentially direct connection to Alzheimers with aluminum was where aluminum dust was inhaled in an industrial setting over several years and the person was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and had high amounts of neurotoxic aluminum in his brain.
Some years ago, some people in Guam developed conditions similar to Alzheimer's by cooking in CHEAP aluminum pans. I assume that they scraped the pans, and ingested a lot of aluminum particles. I did read the article in a science magazine that I subscribed to. They had a picture of a brain cell with aluminum stuck in it. I suppose that the aluminum impeded the normal flow of electrical signals within the brain.
No, I don't think it is dangerous to eat food baked in either side (shiny or matte side) in an aluminum foil. It is dangerous though to put aluminum foil inside a microwave oven to cause those electromagnetic fields to catch fire unless you have a microwave with a cavity magnetron tube to reflect the electromagnetic fields and also don't try to chew and ingest the aluminum foil
You are not eating the aluminum foil when wrap food in it to cook. There is little transference of aluminum to the food you eat. When using it for baked potatoes, the skins just slide off so the potato meat itself had not contact with the foil. Though I have also read something on the use of aluminum cooking vessels and aluminum foil having some properties that can be dangerous to our health, I could find no articles from the FDA or other such qualified organizations regarding the use of aluminum foil.
