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Today we're talking about pesticides and more specifically about the surprising

levels of pesticides found in some common foods. Professor Tim Specter is here to

tell us how to avoid giving these to our families.

Let's start by finding out which foods we should worry about.

And spoiler, avocados are safe.

But what isn't?

Breakfast cereals that contain oats. Okay, that's incredibly surprising.

I thought you were going to give me a fruit.

Tell me about oats.

So oats, because they're often raised in

damp countries they are sprayed just before they're harvested to dry them out.

Okay.

And so this gives them masses amounts and because they're wet they absorb

all that glyphosate and so their levels are

five to ten times more than many other grains.

So that is something that is not particularly a health food that I think people should go

out of their way if they do love oats and I know you used to be an big oat eater

although you're not anymore you know and you can afford it either switch switch to something else or go jump,

particularly if you're trying to give your kids something which you think is healthy,

I think that you could be giving them high levels of,

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