Is Bill Gates' Apeel Really Safe?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about Bill Gates’ new product, Apeel, which is used to make fresh produce last longer. Of the ingredients in Apeel, 99.34 percent are listed as “other ingredients,” which is a red flag because of the lack of transparency.

We know that Apeel contains monoglycerides and diglycerides—emulsifiers, which help mix things together. Apeel also contains solvents and heavy metals, including palladium, cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic! Manufacturers claim these metals are safe in small amounts, but there is no data about chronic consumption over time. Apeel also contains polyethylene glycol, a compound found in antifreeze.

Apeel could be a partially hydrogenated product. The FDA has banned trans fats, but loopholes still allow manufacturers to use them in their products.

If a product has less than .5 grams of trans fats, the FDA allows them to round it down to zero and not report the trans fats in the product. If a product is classified as an emulsifier, not a lipid or fat, it is exempt from the FDA’s ban on trans fats.

There is some controversy surrounding the function of the Apeel coating on produce. Is it a coating to keep food fresh or a fungicide? The EPA and the OMRI describe Apeel as a fungicide used after harvest, but Apeel is advertised as a protective coating.

There’s no way to remove the Apeel coating from your fresh produce, so it could potentially lock pesticides or pathogens inside. Think twice about buying fruits and vegetables that have this coating on them.

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0:17.5	Today we're going to talk about Bill Gates appeal and if it's safe. I did a pretty thorough research on Google to see if it was safe and as I was reading the pages it looked really safe. In fact, it's been thoroughly fact-checked, so we know it's probably going to be safe and we don't need to look any further
0:24.4	Until I took one additional look at the ingredients of this appeal and one of the things that was listed is his 99.34% of this product is listed as other ingredients. Other ingredients
0:32.3	it doesn't tell you what's in it. ingredients. Other ingredients?
0:32.6	It doesn't tell you what's in it.
0:34.3	So right there is a big red flag.
0:36.5	There's no transparency.
0:37.8	We do know that there are mono-indiglysterides in there,
0:41.1	which I'm going to talk about,
0:42.4	but we don't know what else is in this product.
0:44.0	Now first of all what is a mono or a diglistride? It's a emulsifier. What's an emulsifier? It's something that helps to mix two things together and I was able to look at the patents in a
0:56.8	this appeal product and really kind of see more about the manufacturing process because
1:02.4	they're using solvents in this process and
1:05.2	then they'll put in a metal like palladium and then put it under high heats with hydrogen.
1:12.4	So it's like a fat like substance that they're using, but they could be making
1:17.7	this partially hydrogenate product, which is trans fats. That's how they make trans fats. They're actually adding
1:23.8	hydrogens. It's called hydrogenation and when you look a little bit more into
1:28.6	this you see that there's also traces of cadmium, lead, mercury, and arsenic. I'm like what? But they're in very
1:39.0	small amounts and they say that it's safe because it's below the certain standards that they use.
1:45.0	But my question is like, if you're consuming these chronically over time,
1:49.0	have the ever done safety studies on that?
1:51.0	They also add polyethylene glyco. I mean isn't that the
1:54.8	stuff they use in antifreeze? And these two solvents for example, so are they toxic?
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