Looking for the Healthiest Cookware

Since I have been struggling for months on which cookware to buy. I have done some of my researches. My sweet mother-in-law gave us a set of Circulon which is great. I bought 1 pc. of Cast iron frying pan for US$8 just to try it out. I'll try to purchase a good quality cast iron cookware soon which is I think Staub is a nice brand. According to my researches, it leaches some iron and good to add up some iron in the body. I'm just so confused. I actually purchased a 1pc. portobelo italia cookware for US$20 from Ross but still on a review mode for the brand since it's my first time to heard of the brand. I actually haven't heard any brand before since I am from the Philippines and I grew up using just any cookware available. Didn't know it could affect our health. I think we have been using those cheap cookware and it is most likely aluminum. Like for instance I've researched that Aluminum is so not healthy. Non-stick can cause cancer and all. So I have been trying to search for the healthiest cookware available for my family. My husband may think I'm silly. I know it cost a lot and it's an add up to our budget but that's what I believe in. I want to change how we were raised when it comes to cookware and I want use and find the best to try to make my family and illness-free. It's nice to know that you tried your best.

I went to my friend's house potluck party and discovered that someone's doing a  cookware cooking demo and I was surprised at first. It's made up of surgical titanium and I think stainless steel but it's way too expensive. 1 set includes 3 cooking pans cost around US$1,600. It's waterless and oil-free cookware. It was amazing and expensive. I guess you get the quality what you paid for.

If you set up the first meeting at your house and have 3 guest, you get a vegetable cutter for free. Second meeting I think is you get a free salad master wok pan. I'll send you the link later.

Anyway, I want it so badly and I knew I have to do my researches on that expensive cookware. I really want it so bad but I am not sure if it's worth it. I tried searching on the internet and it lead me into a site where they also sell Titanium cookware which is the Nutriply. But I found out in their website that it contains molybdenum. Hmm.. Now, I have to find out about molybdenum. Nutriply is 1/3 cheaper than Salad master but have to research more on this one.

According to my researches, minimal traces of amounts of molybdenum in our bloodstreams is normal but beneficial. The element piggybacks onto bacteria to help us metabolize proteins and grow new cells, and also helps keep our vertebrae and tooth enamel strong. But too much of it can indeed be toxic.

Health care practitioners worry more about miners exposed to molybdenum dust on a daily basis than they do about everyday folks with occasional and incidental exposure via cookware and ingested foods. Few if any cases of acute toxicity in humans have been documented, though animal studies have shown that ingesting small but frequent amounts can lead to diarrhea, growth retardation, infertility, low birth weight and even gout. It has also been shown to negatively affect the lungs, kidneys and liver.

But most of us need not fear, as the amount of molybdenum we get naturally from eating foods like green beans, eggs, sunflower seeds, wheat flour, lentils and cereal grain is not enough to cause any severe health reactions, and, again, is an important building block component of our diets. In fact, a deficiency of molybdenum in one stretch of northern China—where the element does not occur naturally in the region’s soils—has been linked to a higher-than-normal rate of esophageal cancer.

Additional amounts of molybdenum could be getting into your foods from stainless steel cookware, but manufacturers insist that if their products are not dinged and pocked from overuse or abused with abrasive brushes or detergents during clean-up they shouldn’t leach much of anything into the food cooking inside.

Of all the elements used to make stainless steel, molybdenum is one of the most able to tolerate high heat without expanding, softening or otherwise breaking down. That’s largely why it is approved for use in food-grade products by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Incidentally, its heat tolerance is also why it is used in the making of missiles, aircraft, rifle barrels, light bulb filaments and furnace components.

While it is unlikely that the amount of molybdenum in a normal human diet is enough to cause severe health reactions, no one would fault someone with reason for concern to take precautions. For starters, if you do have too much molybdenum in your systems, add some tungsten (sodium tungstate) into your diet, which naturally reduces the concentration of molybdenum in human cells.

With regard to cookware, switching away from stainless steel might be a good idea for anyone with high molybdenum levels in their bloodstreams. No cookware is perfect, but cast iron and anodized aluminum seem to be the top choices today for cooks concerned about leaching elements. While cast iron is known to leach some iron into food, iron deficiencies were far less common before World War II when most of our grandparents cooked with it. And anodized aluminum is an ideal non-stick, acid- and scratch- resistant surface which locks-in aluminum that could otherwise leach into food.


Still on my search for the healthiest cookware until now. I'll update you soon what I am most up to with regards to cookware.. I don't know still if I should stick to stainless steel which is more practical or the expensive ones. 


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