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Oh. Yikes. I'd be wary of that. More than wary. I'd avoid it entirely.

Do let us know how your project turns out!

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It doesn't worry me. I cure my own meat and you should see the mold I've cleaned off of those. LOL

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You're braver than I am, or maybe you have a more robust intestinal system than I do.

For a short while some years ago, I decided to create my own fermented raw [organic] vegetables, instead of buying them from natural foods stores at high prices.

It went pretty well at first, but after one or two batches which tasted fine but made me sick (I had pretty bad diarrhea) I gave up on that project. I suppose I could have persisted and been more careful or experimented more in my technique, (e.g. had I not put enough salt in the batches that made me sick? what else might I have done wrong?) but I'd had enough of the experiment.

Too bad, because I really do love fermented raw vegetables, and they're so egregiously overpriced at natural foods stores! TJ's does carry some good raw fermented veggies, though, at relatively reasonable prices - raw sauerkraut and raw, fermented pickles. At least this is true where I live, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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