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A: there are no "secret ingredients" in Coca Cola, there are a secret mixture of a certain secret subset of a set of well known, known to be safe, ingredients.
by mseebach 8y ago
A: there are no "secret ingredients" in Coca Cola, there are a secret mixture of a certain secret subset of a set of well known, known to be safe, ingredients. In the same way you know that there is nothing weird added to your organic products, but also don't have documentation for the exact molecular structure of the product (not to imply any comparison between these products and Coca Cola).
B: Probably not, because there is no hypothesis that the particular mix of known ingredients in Coca Cola should have adverse health effects separate from those in other sugary, carbonated (add caffeinated) drinks.
- ada1981 8y agoThen why don’t they need to disclose the subset? Who decides what the library of safe ingredients are?
- mseebach 8y agoFor the same reason you don't need to have every single steak and every single carrot analysed to a molecular level. After all, each individual steak or carrot will be a little different from every other. People who know what they're doing has found that mixtures of certain substances within certain parameters are just inherently safe and there's no point in a lot of histrionics around this. > Who decides what the library of safe ingredients are? The FDA, as well as their counterparts in practically every single country in the world. This is not controversial.
- ada1981 8y agoA steak or carrot is a distinct ingredient unit. “Natural Flavors” is not. Obscuring the base ingredient unit is something I’d prefer wasn’t allowed.
- ada1981 8y agoWhy not just put “Edible Stuff” as the only ingredient... as long as it was a bunch of people who know what I should eat that ok it.