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European food safety panel reclassifies titanium dioxide food additive as unsafe
- jokoon 5y agoI remember hearing a French popular activist talking about some titanium thing. I have some gum and they just have E141.
- tom_mellior 5y agoYou have green gum then? E141 is green. E171 is white.
- jaimehrubiks 5y agoBecause titanium dioxide sounded super healthy few years ago
- lambdaba 5y agoWhenever you mention that you're avoiding additives and "chemical sounding ingredients", people laugh and call you a "science denier", that you're simply ignorant and how these things are studied. In reality, the amount of straight poisons still on the market is astonishing, and that much should be evident when looking at the average person's health.
- tinus_hn 5y agoBetter avoid that dihydrogen-monoxide!
- Jiocus 5y agoAlso called titanium white, but you may know it simply as #F3F4F7.
- sschueller 5y agoIn Europe ever food additive has an E number. In this case it's E171. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number
- Jiocus 5y agoYes, that's also true (I'm a EU native).
- summm 5y agoThey put this poison in our food just to make it look more white? How insane is this in the first place?
- rapjr9 5y agoTitanium dioxide is a photocatalyst: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide That article mentions that when it is coated with other things it does not penetrate the skin. However "self cleaning" paints that cause the disintegration of organic matter that lands on the paint also use titanium dioxide: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652615015504 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09596... So what does this self-cleaning ability do to the skin? Remove the outer layer? Kill the skin microbiome? Maybe the same encapsulation prevents this happening? It is hard to believe some particles would not escape encapsulation. I don't know of any other catalysts in general considered safe to eat.