I like the gems from the article:
"mitochondria cells"
"DNA cellular level"
mitochondria are in the same cell with nucleus, but within the cell there is no other cells of any kind. All cells have mitochondria.
there is no such a thing as a DNA cellular, or non-cellular level. There are no levels. There is the nucleus, with the father-mother DNA information, and there is mitochondria, with maternal DNA only.
fun!
I don't think there's any more danger than eating it in berries. The heating process would not destroy this, as any stable aromatic ring compound. It would form another organic salt within the mass of the food.
I've read this article and recognize the amateur logic from years ago.
Any acid getting into our bodies reacts naturally with the abundance of sodium, calcium, and potassium, and is transported to the tissues, and used as needed. The amount over the natural demand gets into bloodstream and taken up by liver, which acts like a chemical reactor. The article should have informed readers of that correctly, while describing kidneys as the filter.
"Sodium benzoate chokes out your body's nutrients at the DNA cellular level by depriving mitochondria cells of oxygen,"
Another crude vested interest misinformation, or ignorance. At the DNA level there's no function of nutrition. It is strictly genetic programming, for growth, or cellular upkeep.
The only object capable of depriving anything of oxygen is cyanide or carbon monoxide.
Mitochondria does possess DNA, which is coded with exclusively maternal information, and as DNA has zero role in nutrition, power production, etc. The article is totally oblivious of the Krebs cycle.
The liver would more likely metabolize a benzoic salt in building amino acids, or something else useful, as needed. It would not be converted back to benzene. It is benzene from environmental pollution that would get metabolized into benzoic salt. In large amounts, benzene would overwhelm the liver, causing production of random organic molecules that would foul up the genetic coding.
The article is written with good will and intuition and guess, but does not bring references to scientific trials, as Dr. Adkins did in his book.
