Chinese farmers across 14 towns are spraying industrial sulfur on wolfberries so they'll be 'red and beautiful': state media
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The broadcaster CCTV aired clips of workers soaking the berries in vats of sodium metabisulfite and smoking them in place of sun-drying their crop.
  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.eeOP
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    3 months ago

    It looked like it was a combination with that and the chemical they washed it with. Also, for this particular product, it isn’t healthy to use the sulfur treatment, it seems. The producers said something to the effect of, “we know this will cause problems for people, but the fruit is prettier and we get better prices for them”.

    The news company said that they tested them as well and found them to be toxic.