Is there any health benefit to eating gold? The truth behind the culinary myth
                                
                                
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                                Despite its luxurious reputation and history in ancient remedies, food-grade gold provides no nutritional value and is not absorbed by the human body. This means the glittering flakes and leaves pass through your system without any health benefit to eating gold.