My mistake: leeks are all leaf no stalk at all! Maybe it's one of those plants easier to digest raw than cooked?
I know you to be fearless, but I was just wondering if you had any stats on how realistic the scare is. (Some healthfood shops are not importing seaweed from Japan anymore, I noticed recently). Indeed how far do we go in making "healthy choices"and taking reasonable risks? Always a conundrum in the kitchen!
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If you are so concerned about food radiation you could always buy a geiger meter. Then again most dry spices are preserved through food irradiation. You decide how deep that rabbit hole you want to go ;) I let my body cope with the occasional food poisons. What helped me to relax was John A. McDougalls Starch Solution, where he stated that the effects of toxins in food are minuscule because of their neglectible concentration and it is far more important to focus on the macronutritient ratio. It's always a balancing act between an enjoyable life and being pathologicaly obsessed with a healthy lifestyle turned into orthorexia. Never understood how this could be a disease, now I do, thank you for enlightening me :)
Glad to be of service. Not quite sure how I was though! You seem to be the expert on all the technical details and I am curious to discover how they bear weight on your eating patterns, which seem to take extreme care of all those details (no expense spared!). Orthorexia is a terrible modern disorder but less to do with radiation levels and more to do with fitting in.