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 fortiļ¬ed with iodate instead