BOOM December 2015 | Page 41

H E A LT H Cooking with tap water and salt? Your food could be toxic H ere is one study that would force you to tweak your cooking routine in the kitchen. According to researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Nanjing University in China, cooking with chloraminated tap water and iodised table salt could put potentially harmful toxins in your food. The team found several molecules that are almost completely new to scientists created by cooking with chloraminated tap water and iodised table salt. They said that limiting cooking time and temperature, and cooking with table salt fortified with iodate instead