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It looks it's a common ingredient for candy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/scienceandfood/2016/04/12/titanium-dioxide-in-food/#.Wyt6ZlOFN60 http://blogs.dis
by vfc1 8y ago
It looks it's a common ingredient for candy: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/scienceandfood/2016/04/12/titanium-dioxide-in-food/#.Wyt6ZlOFN60 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/scienceandfood/2016/04/12/... - "Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2) are widely used as a food additive and are consumed by millions of consumers on a daily basis, as manufacturers incorporate it into their food products. "
- andai 8y agoWorse, it's in most toothpaste. > Titanium dioxide found to cause pre-cancerous growths in 40% of mice https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toothpaste-additive-e171-titanium-dioxide-food-products-cancer-cause-scientists-a7541956.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/toothpaste-additi...
- teekert 8y agoAt least you don't swallow that...
- coldtea 8y agoA person with a healthy diet probably swallows much more toothpaste (accidentally remnants flushed down etc) than candy.
- theothermkn 8y ago> It is unclear whether the product might have a similar effect in people, and the scientists said their findings “cannot be extrapolated to humans”. Cinnamon caused some kind of liver dysfunction (cancer, IIRC) in mice. I turns out that mice lacked a metabolic pathway for processing a byproduct of the breakdown of Cinnamon, a pathway that humans possess. Mouse models aren't perfect, so it's probably premature to use the value-laden word "worse" in relation to TiO2 in toothpaste.
- man2525 8y agoCeylon or Cassia cinnamon?
- theothermkn 8y agoI don't recall, and Google is now useless because there's apparently been a spate of research over some cinnamon byproduct that now helps the liver, so that's all that comes up in the results. IIRC, whichever one was the variety that is commonly sold in the US. Sorry I can't be more sure.
- VLM 8y agoHe's talking about cassia, and the specific substance is coumarin which has a fairly high fatal dosage for humans. Note that cinnamaldehyde tastes really good and has nothing to do with coumarin if the chemical processing is done correctly. Anyway in rodents at very low doses their liver converts it to some nasty epoxide which slowly gives rodents liver cancer; not an issue for primates who an only die from acute liver toxicity. This was a "thing" generations ago, leading to endless old wives tale type advice about cinnamon "repelling and killing mice" which actually doesn't work because its too bitter if dusted around in pure form. If you're bored its interesting to research cinnamon-flavored liquors, the more "natural and organic", at least if it uses cassia for flavor, the higher the poisonous coumarin content and in contrast the more processed refined pure cinnamaldehyde is essentially non-poisonous (lethal dose for a human would be about half a liter of the concentrated oil, extrapolating from animal studies, figure a percent or two of total body mass). From memory the LD50 of common table salt is about 10% lower than the LD50 of cinnamaldehyde, of course in a cinnamon flavored liquor the ethanol would kill a consumer long before the cinnamaldehyde would be an issue.
- tshannon 8y agoWow, it's even in Tom's https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/titanium-dioxide https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/titanium...
- apo 8y agoFor example, powdered donuts can contain up to 100 mg Ti per serving. Yike!
- homero 8y agoTitanium dioxide is used as a white colorant
- tkahnoski 8y agoAlso active ingredient in a lot of sun screen.
- wlesieutre 8y agoIt's an extremely common white pigment. According to wikipedia, it represents 70% of all pigment production worldwide. You'll find it in food, paint, opaque white plastics, cosmetics, sunscreen (it blocks UV), paper, toothpaste, and tons of other stuff.