topic Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic in Kitchen

Beware : Chinese Garlic

Reever — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:39:50 GMT

Please be aware while shopping about garlic imported from CHINA !

80% of the garlic sold around the world comes from China. Garlic from China is often covered in bleach and pesticides.China isn’t as stringent with its safety regulations. Reports run rampant of garlic bleached in chlorine, fumigated in pesticides, grown in untreated sewage water, and even contaminated with lead.

Shoppers please only select CALIFORNIA GROWN GARLIC ! We must break free of dependeny on China.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

gizmogal — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 00:56:36 GMT

So garlic grown somewhere in the USA, but not necessarily California, is no good? It has to be California garlic only?

Or do you mean to advise that China-sourced garlic may be impure or dangerously treated, but garlic grown here in the USA may be a safer choice?

Also, all food imported into the USA is sampled and tested in FDA laboratories to screen for dangerous impurities, infestations, or other unwholesome attributes. Imports are stopped if random testing does not meet quality standards. Perhaps some slips through, but not often and not for long.

I don't disagree that China may be lax in its release of some contaminants, but I do not believe that 80% of the world's garlic is toxic because it's grown in and exported from China.

I did some research and found the advisory words you posted were verbatim from a report online from a source called Boredom Therapy! Perhaps that is for people preoccupied with alarmist advice to offset boredom?

https://boredomtherapy.com/american-garlic-vs-chinese-garlic/

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

Kachina624 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:07:19 GMT

Here we go again. I thought we had already exhausted the garlic-from-China discussion. I know I heard all I wanted to hear about it. I guess when you can't find anything else to discuss, we can resume kicking China.

Isn't California the annual source of contaminated of Romaine Lettuce?

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

ahoymate — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:09:27 GMT

FYI...................there are several topics on this subject if you Google it gizmogal. Southern Living is one you should check out.

California is the garlic capital of the world

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

ahoymate — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:14:30 GMT

FYI.......................California's Salinas Valley is often called the "Salad Bowl of the World." Roughly 70 percent of the nation's lettuce crop is grown there, along with plenty of other produce.

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coffee drinker — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:31:33 GMT

I have seen this garlic from China for years and cannot understand why it's sold here when so much garlic is grown in the USA, especially Gilroy, CA. Isn't Gilroy the garlic capital of the world or maybe just the US. Anyway, I buy the loose garlic and make sure it's grown here.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

sunshine45 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:50:52 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Here we go again. I thought we had already exhausted the garlic-from-China discussion. I know I heard all I wanted to hear about it. I guess when you can't find anything else to discuss, we can resume kicking China.

Isn't California the annual source of contaminated of Romaine Lettuce?

yes, another chinese garlic thread by the same poster even......isnt it?

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

Sooner — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 03:53:01 GMT

@coffee drinker wrote:
I have seen this garlic from China for years and cannot understand why it's sold here when so much garlic is grown in the USA, especially Gilroy, CA. Isn't Gilroy the garlic capital of the world or maybe just the US. Anyway, I buy the loose garlic and make sure it's grown here.

Ditto! What she said. I haven't bought Chinese garlic in many years and don't intend to buy it.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

gizmogal — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:41:11 GMT

I have trouble understanding how 80% of the garlic sold in the world is grown in China and how California (specifically Gilroy) is the garlic capital of the world?

Which of these locales dominates the garlic market? Or is it that one sells more (China sells 80% leaving 20% to other growers) but one (Gilroy? California?) actually grows more garlic, but doesn't sell as much?

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

proudlyfromNJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:43:09 GMT

@gizmogal wrote:
I have trouble understanding how 80% of the garlic sold in the world is grown in China and how California (specifically Gilroy) is the garlic capital of the world?

Which of these locales dominates the garlic market? Or is it that one sells more (China sells 80% leaving 20% to other growers) but one (Gilroy? California?) actually grows more garlic, but doesn't sell as much?

@gizmogal Last time I bought garlic my grocery store only had Chinese garlic.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

4kitties — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 12:51:50 GMT

I recently bought garlic at Walmart. It is labeled Product of USA.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

coffee drinker — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:20:27 GMT

Did anyone try growing garlic? I did, but my gardening skills are lacking. My niece-in-law's father grows that and many other items in his organic garden with great success. Maybe I should give gardening another try.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

CelticCrafter — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:35:21 GMT

@sunshine45 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
Here we go again. I thought we had already exhausted the garlic-from-China discussion. I know I heard all I wanted to hear about it. I guess when you can't find anything else to discuss, we can resume kicking China.

Isn't California the annual source of contaminated of Romaine Lettuce?

yes, another chinese garlic thread by the same poster even......isnt it?

@sunshine45 & @Kachina624 - yes, same poster, only this time she didn't name the store.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

Sooner — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:42:58 GMT

I'm fine that this comes up occasionally because it's something a lot of people don't know about. And a lot of us would want to know about.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

suzyQ3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:32:50 GMT

I guess we can look forward to the same poster repeating topics ad nauseam. I personally don't understand the rational.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

Kachina624 — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:39:49 GMT

@CelticCrafter @suzyQ3 @sunshine45 Good call!

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MoonieBaby — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:12:38 GMT

Netflix had a whole season of shows on this subject and others like it...

The show was called ROTTEN.

It supports her claims and delved into even more flagrantly DISGUSTING facts about garlic from China.

Re: Beware : Chinese Garlic

MoonieBaby — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:14:09 GMT

@Reever

You happen to be 100% correct.

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Twins Mom — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:18:25 GMT

Name brand of organic apple juice at market marked "China \ Turkey". Not a good feeling. Apples??

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ID2 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:04:01 GMT

I buy my garlic from locally owned farmers here where i live. So glad I buy local!!!