McDonald's, Applebee's, Dunkin Donuts, Au Bon Pain product list - Products that contain aluminum salts and products with no aluminum salts

Starbucks and Panera DON'T use Aluminum in any of their baked goods !  

July 2017

Dunkin Donuts - USES ALUMINUM - a known neurotoxin

This company uses sodium aluminum phosphate and Aluminum Sulfate as a leavening agent 

all muffins contain aluminum

Donuts that contain aluminum - Powdered, French Cruller, Plain Stick 

These donuts don't contain aluminum - Jelly, Sugar raised donut, Glazed, Glazed Jelly, Apple Crumb Donut, Apple n spice donut, boston cream, lemon, bavarian cream, coffee roll 


Breakfast sandwiches do not contain aluminum

McDonald’s - USES ALUMINUM

Products that contain Sodium Aluminum Phosphate – a known neurotoxin    

Biscuit – including Blueberry, Bacon. Sausage scratch

Hot Cakes

Flour Tortilla
Chicken McNuggets

Crispy chicken fillet – *

Southern Style Crispy breakfast chicken breast filet

Spicy Chicken McBites

Apple Cinnamon Muffin

Carrot Muffin - ? lists baking powder which could contain aluminum 

“Baking Powder, Cinnamon, Baking Soda”

* Kentucky fried chicken is aluminum free – the company uses sodium phosphate

McDonald's products that DON’T contain aluminum

Chocolate Chip Cookie  -  Leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, corn starch, monocalcium    

                phosphate)

Oatmeal Raisin Cookie – Leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, corn starch, monocalcium

                phosphate)

Griddle Cakes - Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate)

Blueberry Muffin -  Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate

Berry Bran Muffin - Baking Soda, Baking Powder (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate,

                        Corn Starch, Calcium Sulfate, Monocalcium Phosphate )

Bakery Style Bun

Big Mac Bun

Oreo Cookie Pieces Leavening (Baking Soda, Calcium Phosphate)

McChicken Patty Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Ammonium Bicarbonate,

                Monocalcium Phosphate)

Mighty wings Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate)



APPLEBEE'S

Aluminum phosphate is used as the leavening agent - chicken tenders have aluminum phosphate 

 

Au Bon Pain   

Cranberry Orange, Blueberry, Double Chocolate, Corn Muffin have Sodium aluminum phosphate

Bran Muffin doesn't contain aluminum

Energy cookie has sodium aluminum phosphate
All other cookies don't have aluminum

Cupcakes, pound cake and brownies don't have aluminum

Pecan Roll has sodium aluminum phosphate 

 

January 2021excerpt from

Increasing IQ, Cognition and Cure Rate of COVID-19 with Essential Nutrients

Targeted Detox Improves Children’s IQ, ADHD Behavior, and Adult Cognition 

by Dennis N Croues

Many chain restaurants use baking powder containing aluminum in a variety of their baked goods and fried chicken products:

·         Burger King

o   Chicken fries

o   Pancakes

 

·         Chick-Fil-A

o   Biscuits

o   Chicken biscuit

o   Chicken-n-minis

o   Chicken-n-strips kid’s meal

·         Dunkin Donuts

o   Crullers: Chocolate dipped French crullers

o   Donuts : Old fashioned, apple cider, pumpkin, butternut, chocolate frosted cake, chocolate frosted, cinnamon, cinnamon stick, coconut, French cruller, glazed blueberry, glazed chocolate,  glazed chocolate stick,  jelly stick , lemon stick, peanut, plain stick

o   Muffins: Blueberry, chocolate chip, coffee cake, corn

o   Munchkins: Apple cider, pumpkin

 

·         KFC

o   Hot and spicy chicken

 

·         McDonalds

o   Biscuits – including blueberry, bacon, sausage scratch

o   Blueberry muffins

o   Chicken McNuggets

o   Flour Tortillas

o   Hot cakes

 

·         Wendy’s

o   Buttermilk pancakes

o   Chicken nuggets

 

This information was taken from each company’s website.

In order to bake “aluminum free” it is recommended that you make your own homemade baking powder with cream of tartar as the powdered acid according to the following recipe. The manufactures whose products were tested and found to have an undetectable amount (less than 0.004mg/tsp.) of aluminum are in parentesis⁵⁹⁵:

·         2 Tbsp.            Cream of Tartar (McCormick and Signature Kitchens)

·         1 Tbsp.            Baking Soda (Arm & Hammer and Davis)

·         1 Tbsp.            Corn Starch (Davis)

Mix the ingredients together and put the mixture through a screen wire sieve. For storage, place the homemade baking powder in a container with a snap on plastic lid or vacuum seal, such as plastic Minivac spice containers made by Tightvac.com. Store the homemade baking powder in a cool dry place. Using the same amount of aluminum-free homemade baking powder in recipes has been tested and is the same as using commercial baking powder containing aluminum.

Aluminum used in baking powder has resulted in processed food being “aluminized” increasing the population’s daily exposure to aluminum at levels much higher than found in drinking water. For example, one pancake for breakfast and a piece of cake for dessert can contain 15mg of aluminum. Likewise, one ounce of American cheese and one baking powdered biscuit can contain 20mg of aluminum⁶¹². Therefore, it is not surprising that the risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the U.S. is increased 7.6-fold with a daily diet of pancakes, waffles, muffins, biscuits, cornbread, and/or tortillas⁶¹³. One reason why the rate of AD is increasing exponentially in the U.S. is most store and restaurant-bought baked goods in the U.S. are being made by aluminum containing baking powder.

Businesses that DON'T use salts of Aluminum for a leaving agent and businesses that do

Link to 4 books by Dennis N Crouse about aluminum and silica water to remove aluminum. Link to Books

Businesses Mostly In New England which USE ALUMINUM FREE baking powders

Please check these businesses to make sure they are continuing to use aluminum free baking powder. 

Whole Foods

Starbucks

Panera

Kentucky Fried Chicken – chicken is aluminum free

MASSACHUSETTS

Turners – Melrose and Salem, Ma

Sweet Spot Bakery   Melrose, Ma

Bohemian Coffee House  Melrose, Ma

Salt Box Kitchen      West Concord, Ma

Kim Gregory Pure Pastry       Beverly, Ma

Union Square Donuts – Donuts are fine Somerville, Ma 

Flour Girl Baking Company Fairhaven, Ma

http://flourgirlsbakingco.com/

Middle Street Cafe, Newburyport, Ma

Sea Meadow Inn  - Brewster, Ma

Cook Restaurant  -  Newton  

White's Bakery  - Brockton   

Pigs Fly Bread - many locations in Mass

MAINE

Stonewall Kitchen  Kittery, Maine

http://www.stonewallkitchen.com/

Holy Donuts  Portland, Maine

Lil’s Café   Kittery, Maine

Anneka Jans  Kittery, Maine 

Pigs Fly Bread York, Maine and other locations 

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Polly’s Pancakes      Sugar Hill, New Hampshire

Farm at Eastman's Corner   Kensington, New Hampshire

 Shearwater at Stage Neck Inn  York, Maine

VERMONT

King Arthur Flour – Vermont

CALIFORNIA

Sensitive Sweets   online and Fountain Valley, California 

 http://www.sensitivesweets.com/

If you know of a business which can be added to this list please leave a comment with the name of the business and the location.

Businesses which use Aluminum Baking Powder

Dunkin donuts – Sodium aluminum phosphate and aluminum sulfate (on line)

IHOP – sodium aluminum phosphate – called 2 restaurants

Gingerbread Construction company – Sodium Aluminum Phosphate – listed on website  Melrose and Winchester, Ma dropped of letter and talked to manager hoping they will change

McDonalds – sodium aluminum phosphate –  see my blog  9-23-2017 for a list of products that contain aluminum

Big Y – aluminum in leaving agent – unhealthy ingredients in muffin

Shaws - aluminum in leaving agent - some yes some no

Wegman's - muffins, banana loaf -  Sodium Aluminum Phosphate

scones are OK -  (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Corn Starch, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Sulfate)

coffee cake is OK Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda),  

 End Bakery Massachusetts baked items sold at Buckalew's in Melrose

Source Bakery - Winchester farmer's market and Locke Wright Farm - sent letter hoping they will change 

Recent evidence linking Aluminum to Alzheimer's Disease

7 Pieces of Evidence Linking Aluminum and Alzheimer’s Disease

BY UHN STAFF • APR 2017

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Aluminum is a neurotoxin, that is, a poison to the brain and nervous system. Some experts have long speculated that this metal plays a role in Alzheimer’s disease, and evidence is steadily mounting that it indeed does. Fortunately, there’s also evidence that suggests that a number of natural plant extracts and nutrients can prevent and/or reduce aluminum toxicity in the brain and prevent the progression of memory loss and other cognitive deficits.

 

A team of neuroscientists led by Dr. Walter Lukiw, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at Louisiana State University, has been studying the potential contribution of aluminum to the onset, development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease for about 30 years. Dr. Lukiw and his fellow researchers recently summarized the research linking aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease in a peer-reviewed article published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.[1]  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2014.00062/full

“Aluminum’s contribution to Alzheimer’s disease is based upon at least seven independently derived observations,” the researchers stated.[2]  Briefly, those seven pieces of evidence are:

1. Aluminum strongly promotes beta-amyloid plaques in the brain at levels corresponding to those currently found in humans.
2. Aluminum promotes inflammation in the brain by increasing the pro-inflammatory molecule known as nuclear factor kappa beta (NF-kB), a prominent feature in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
3. Out of the many thousands of brain gene messenger RNA molecules (molecules that convey genetic information from DNA to cause gene expression), aluminum increases the same ones that are increased in Alzheimer’s disease.
4. Adding aluminum to the diets of animals with Alzheimer’s disease causes additional brain changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease such oxidative stress, programmed cell death, and deficits in gene expression.
5. Aluminum also causes the same types of cellular energy deficits that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease, such as impaired signaling involving ATP and energy utilization.
6. A very significant number of studies link the amount of aluminum in drinking water to the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease. (Worldwide, aluminum is added to drinking water as a clarification or “finishing” agent.)
7. Out of all the Alzheimer’s disease drug treatments tried to date, chelation using an aluminum chelator has been shown to be one of the most effective therapeutic strategies yet.

Digging deeper: what animal studies have found

There is no ethically acceptable way to directly test whether aluminum causes Alzheimer’s disease in humans. Because it’s not ethical to dose humans with aluminum, researchers must rely on other scientific methods of investigation to determine aluminum’s role in this devastating disease. One way to do this is through animal studies.

It is now well-established that aluminum directly causes Alzheimer’s-like memory impairment, behavioral problems, and learning deficits in animals, even in very low doses.[2-5] For instance, rats that consume aluminum in amounts equivalent to those ingested by Americans from their food and water develop severe Alzheimer’s-type cognitive deterioration in old age.[5]

Animals exposed to aluminum don’t just develop Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, they also show definitive evidence of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains.

• Aluminum accumulates in the brain cells of particular regions of the brain most prone to damage in Alzheimer’s disease.[6]
• Many studies have demonstrated how aluminum causes beta-amyloid plaques to abnormally form in the brains of animals.[2,7-10] These plaques, the hallmark features of Alzheimer’s disease, form when pieces of sticky proteins called beta-amyloid clump together and block cell-to-cell signaling at synapses. They also activate immune system cells that trigger inflammation and devour disabled cells. Aluminum-induced beta-amyloid plaques occur in exactly the same brain regions in animals as they do in humans.
• Third, another brain change consistent with Alzheimer’s disease also occurs in animals exposed to aluminum: the formation of what are known as neurofibrillary tangles.[6, 10-12] Neurofibrillary tangles are abnormal collections of twisted protein threads found inside nerve cells that consist primarily of a protein called tau. Like beta-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles damage the ability of neurons to communicate with each other and are a hallmark feature of Alzheimer’s disease.

Prominent Researchers speak out

Different teams of researchers from all over the world have recently published papers outlining the convincing evidence from both human and animal studies and warning of the dangers of aluminum as a cause of Alzheimer’s disease.[10, 12-15]

It is enlightening to learn what some of these experts have to say about aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease in their own words.

• “Overall, the evidence indicates that Alzheimer’s disease is a human form of chronic aluminum neurotoxicity.” J.R. Walton, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia[12]
• “…studies suggest that aluminum may not be as innocuous as was previously thought and that aluminum may actively promote the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease.” Stephen Bondy, Environmental Toxicology Program, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA[16]
•  “The hypothesis that aluminum significantly contributes to Alzheimer’s disease is built upon very solid experimental evidence and should not be dismissed. Immediate steps should be taken to lessen human exposure to aluminum…” Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada[14]
• “There is growing evidence for a link between aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease… it is widely accepted that aluminum is a recognized neurotoxin, and that it could cause cognitive deficiency and dementia…” Masahiro Kawahara, Department of Analytical Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University of Health and Welfare, Japan[10]
• “As scientific publications continue to support the hypothesis that aluminum toxicity is involved in Alzheimer’s disease, it would be prudent to adopt strategies for preventing excessive aluminum exposures…” Maire Percy, PhD, University of Toronto, Canada.[18]

The case of the Alzheimer’s patient and the aluminum in his brain

Another of the world’s preeminent researchers studying aluminum’s negative health effects is Dr. Christopher Exley, PhD, of Keele University in the United Kingdom. Dr. Exley and his team have found that aluminum appears to accumulate in the brain with age.[15] Their most recent research demonstrates that many people over the age of 70 have a potentially pathological amount of aluminum accumulated in their brains.[15]

Dr. Exley and his colleagues were recently the first to demonstrate significantly elevated brain aluminum levels in an individual diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease following occupational exposure to aluminum.[17] Occupational exposure to aluminum is directly associated with impaired cognitive function; the more aluminum to which people are exposed, the poorer they perform on tests for memory and other cognitive functions.

The case presented by Dr. Exley involved a previously healthy man who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at age 58, after more than eight years of regular exposure to aluminum sulfate dust. At first, the man complained of headaches, tiredness, and mouth ulcers. He then started to show memory problems and began suffering from depression before he was finally diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

After his death in 2011, his brain’s cerebral cortex was found to have abundant beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, consistent with advanced Alzheimer’s disease. At the request of his family and the local coroner, samples of the man’s brain tissue were sent to Dr. Exley for analysis of aluminum. According to Dr. Exley, it is extremely rare to be given as much brain tissue as was provided for analysis, and the opportunity enabled the most thorough analysis of a brain region’s aluminum content ever undertaken.

The data confirmed the accumulation of aluminum in the man’s brain tissue. In some samples from the frontal lobe, the aluminum levels were excessive and high enough to cause disease. While Dr. Exley’s data cannot prove that aluminum caused the man’s aggressive Alzheimer’s disease, he states that it is highly likely given the known neurotoxicity of aluminum.[17]

How to reduce your risk of aluminum-induced Alzheimer’s disease

With the growing evidence linking aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease, we all need to personally take steps now to reduce our exposure to this ubiquitous metal. Part 1 of this series, Does Antiperspirant Cause Cancer? Here’s Why You Should Be Concerned About Aluminum Toxicity, provided information on common sources of aluminum exposure, along with ideas on how to avoid it.

But what about the aluminum that is already lodged in our bodies? Fortunately, researchers have discovered that a number of natural compounds can reduce the body’s burden of aluminum and prevent or treat its toxic effects. In 8 Ways to Protect Yourself from Aluminum Poisoning, I will examine the many ways we can safely and naturally deal with aluminum toxicity.