The fist successful harvest of the crops occurred in March, and back then lead researcher Wieger Wamelink told website Gizmodo they had to wait for heavy metals tests before taste-testing the food. Now, the results in:
Now, the first heavy metal tests of those crops are in. Of the four crops sampled—peas, tomatoes, rye, and radishes—all of them had heavy metal concentrations within normal levels, the researchers reported.
In fact, both peas and tomatoes in some cases had lower levels than the earth crops:
The researchers still have six additional crops to send through heavy metals testing—including potatoes, green beans, and carrots. But, with these preliminary results from the first crops, it looks as though the crops are finally ready to be eaten.
Wamelink told Gizmodo that the crops are probably OK to eat, but he did have one caveat:
“In principle, there could be another problem, but the chances of that are very low and we would taste it immediately,” he told us. “Plants may form alkaloids when they are under pressure, in high quantities they could be poisonous to us.”
He also said they would continue to check on the crops for alkaloids and other content.
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Article Source: Gizmodo
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Watch out for the space bugs !!! Lmbo
Sean Dodge
This is great for the big wigs because when someone nukes us the Obama and Sharpton etc., etc., will be well fed when they hop in their spaceship and say see ya suckers.
Oh yeah don’t forget the Clintons