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Can you eat snow? Yes, but remember these safety tips first : The Salt As it falls, snow forms a sort of net for catching pollutants in the atmosphere. Pesticides and dirt from soil can also end up in there. Still, most researchers told us they'd eat it, with caveats.
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Read More »Long-lost pesticides might also show up in snow in some places, according to Staci Simonich, a professor of environmental and toxic ecology at Oregon State University. She found pesticides that were 30, 40 and 50 years old in high elevations in several U.S. national parks (including Olympic in Washington, Denali in Alaska and Sequoia in California). But the levels were 100 times lower than what's deemed safe for drinking water. And what about in urban and suburban areas, where most of us harvest our snow? Simonich says that pesticide concentrations are likely higher in backyard snow. "That being said, I would not hesitate for my children to have the joy of eating a handful of fresh fallen snow from my backyard. ... Because the pesticide concentrations are low and the amount of snow eaten in a handful is small, so the one-time dose is very low and not a risk to health." But if it's windy, take heed, says Sarah Doherty, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington. She recently discovered that dirt can mix in with snow as it falls — especially in places like the northern Great Plains, where there are lots of open fields and dirt roads. That's where Doherty took samples of freshly fallen snow in 20- to 30-mph winds. "The snow comes out of the cloud," she explains, "and when it gets within a few meters of the ground, it gets mixed with soil that's blowing around." Whether that makes the snow unsafe to eat depends entirely on what's in the soil, says Doherty. Just as you'd want to avoid the yellow snow, if you've just had a load of manure delivered in advance of spring planting and suddenly a blizzard whips through, a strong wind can quickly ruin the fresh snowball you'd planned to devour. And "never eat snow that's been plowed," advises Mark Williams of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado. It's likely to contain sand and chemicals such as magnesium chloride. "All this gets incorporated into the plowed snow and is bad for you."
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Read More »But even though they note that pollutants like sulfates, mercury and DDT could appear in low levels in snow, almost all the researchers The Salt spoke with said they would still eat it, and even savor it. According to Pomeroy, "It is well-known amongst snow chemists that fresh Arctic snow goes very well with 15-year-old single malt whisky." Of course, not everyone is so sanguine about what we unwittingly may be scooping up with snow. "As a mother who is an atmospheric physical chemist, I definitely do not suggest my young kids to eat snow in urban areas in general," Parisa Ariya of Canada's McGill University recently told the Huffington Post. She was the lead researcher on a 2016 paper that found falling snow can soak up unsavory chemicals from gasoline exhaust in the air, like toluene, xylenes and benzene, a known carcinogen. Researchers are generally less concerned about what's in the snow than the fact that climate change may be causing it to rapidly disappear, especially in Western regions of the U.S. "Enjoy it now, because there's a whole lot less of it," says Anne Nolin, a hydroclimatologist at Oregon State University. Anne Bramley is the author of Eat Feed Autumn Winter and the host of the Eat Feed podcast. Twitter: @annebramley
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