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I might be remembering things wrong, but doesn't a lot of chewing gum have Titanium Dioxide as its whitening agent for teeth?
by rhacker 8y ago
I might be remembering things wrong, but doesn't a lot of chewing gum have Titanium Dioxide as its whitening agent for teeth?
- wolfi1 8y agodon`t know for chewing gum, but it`s in tooth paste as well
- FrozenVoid 8y agoTitanium Dioxide is used practically everywhere. Its the "white coloring" in paint, food,skincare, medicine,plastics,paper, coatings,inks,etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide
- ratacat 8y agoIt's also widely used in milk, to cover up the blue color of milk from industrial milk production facilities where thousands of animals are locked up in big metal sheds with poor quality food. Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.
- FrozenVoid 8y ago> Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients. Thats illegal, they have at least to mention "Artificial coloring"
- jlebrech 8y agothe dairy industry get's special dispensation
- ars 8y agoAccording to this, it has to be disclosed: https://www.worldrd.com/big-dairy-really-putting-microscopic-pieces-metal-food/ https://www.worldrd.com/big-dairy-really-putting-microscopic... Also it's only added to skim milk, ratacat post about industrial milk and whatever isn't true.
- refurb 8y agoMilk is naturally blue. It’s the fat emulsion that covers it up. That’s why skim milk has a blue tinge.
- delian66 8y agoMilk is in fact white. Source: grew up on a farm.
- ars 8y agoMilk is white, only skim milk is blue, so they sometimes add titanium dioxide as color, but it has to be listed on the ingredients.
- _red 8y agoActually, raw milk has an ivory / yellow tint (depending how much grass the cows have eaten vs hay). Grain and soy feeding tends to produce white milk however. Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows the difference. The store bought milk suddenly looks bleached white, like liquid paper.
- jaydenseric 8y agoPretty sure it forms the white shell on mm's and Smarties.
- baking 8y agoM&M's and the hard shell coating chewing gum are among the highest concentrations in food. Also, white frosting and pudding.
- baking 8y agoIt's in the hard shell coating in gums used to keep the soft gum core fresher and chewier. This has been tested by dissolving the shell and separating it from the gum.