Hi Blistering fate,

Thanks for this info. I almost had my hubby get some orgainic rasins...they are just as bad as the conventional ones...loaded with fluoride :( Boy that's all we need in this house ...no thanks :)
Marie

Fluoride in raisins by the chart you cite is 2.3 ppm. So if you eat 2.2 pounds of raisins, you get 2.3 milligrams of fluoride, or about the same as in 1/2 gallon of city water.

But who ever eats 2.2 pounds of raisins ?

If you eat 1/4 pound of raisins, you get less than 0.3 milligrams fluoride.

I guess you could eat 1/4 pound of raisins, what's that ? Like a whole box of raisins ?

But 1/4 pound of raisins has about the same fluoride as a 12 ounce glass of city water. Or coffee at a restarurant made using city water. Or reconstituted orange juice made using city water. Or soda pop in a mixed drink at a bar made using city water, etc.

I'd be more concerned about white wine than I would raisins. At 2ppm it is twice as bad as city water. An 8-ounce glass of white wine would have 0.5 milligrams of fluoride in it according to the chart, which is nearly twice that of a quarter pound of freekin raisins.

Lol, dry instant tea powder is like 900 ppm of fluoride, or nearly 0.1 % by weight of F. Is that enough to require special labeling ? Would it be effective as a rat poison at that level ? What is the LD-50 of instant tea powder ?

That measurement on the chart is for 100 grams of raisins. That is a large serving, I think. I never eat that many raisins at once. Just make sure to get enough Iodine to compensate for a little natural fluoride.

The fluoride in some foods or juices is not natural, such as cranberry juice. The cranberry bogs are filled with municipal water that has fluoride from that water, factory waste. A lot different than naturally occurring.

The fluoride contained in powdered tea never ceases to amaze me...forget the instant tea for sure.