Friday Favorites: Ochratoxin and Breakfast Cereals, Herbs, Spices, and Wine

One of the few food contaminants found at higher levels in those eating plant-based diets are mycotoxins, fungal toxins in moldy foods, such as oats. Most food crops are contaminated with fungal mycotoxins, but some are worse than others.

This is the first and second videos in a four-part series on mold toxins. The other two are Should We Be Concerned About the Effects of Ochratoxin? ( ) and Should We Be Concerned About Aflatoxin? ( ).

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