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It'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 met
by ratacat 8y ago
It'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.