Spaghetti test with terrifying results: more than half of the types of pasta tested contain traces of a controversial pesticide.
Munich - Whether you just roll it on a fork, as in Italy, or a spoon to help with: Spaghetti is also eaten in Germany and can be found on all supermarket shelves from Aldi, Lidl, Edeka and Co. along with many other types of pasta .
However, as an
eco-test
on November 11, 2021 showed, traces of the herbicide glyphosate and other questionable ingredients are hidden in some types of spaghetti.
Spaghetti test gives "unsavory result"
The consumer magazine tested 19 spaghetti brands.
These include packs from Barilla, Alnatura and the Combino brand spaghetti available from Lidl.
The magazine concluded the test with a self-formulated “unsavory result”: more than half of the pasta tested contained traces of the pesticide glyphosate.
The controversial weed killer is considered likely to be carcinogenic and the European Union has been discussing a ban on the pesticide for years.
For the consumer, the traces, which are only slightly discovered in the pasta, are not acutely dangerous.
Laboratories white in spaghetti glyphosate, mineral oil stocks and a mold toxin
In addition to the pesticide, the test result reveals two other questionable ingredients.
For example, the responsible laboratories have also detected mineral oil levels and contamination with a mold toxin in some types of spaghetti.
Two spaghetti packs that contained a comparatively “slightly increased content of unsaturated mineral oil hydrocarbons” received negative points.
These can accumulate in adipose tissue and human organs.
According to the test, the mold toxin Deoxynivalenol (DON) was found in two of the pasta packs tested.
Here, too, the levels were classified as "increased".
According to this, a person weighing around 60 kilograms with just one serving of spaghetti would exhaust the daily tolerable amount of the poison by more than half.
The problem is that DON can disrupt the human immune system.
Top marks for eight types of spaghetti - price plays the most important role
According to Öko-Test, however, the experiment also yielded good news: In addition to one failed pasta pack and several pasta packs classified as “mediocre”, the consumer magazine rated eight of the 19 spaghetti tested as “very good”.
In addition, the test showed that more expensive brands do not taste fundamentally better than comparably cheaper ones.
However, due to the corona pandemic, a noodle emergency could soon arise on German supermarket shelves.
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