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I'm not disagreeing with you but in this case it's adding the most unnatural weird ass shit to soda for no really good reasons. Any chemist looks at "brominate
by isoprophlex 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but in this case it's adding the most unnatural weird ass shit to soda for no really good reasons.
Any chemist looks at "brominated vegetable oil" and they'll tell you to chuck it into the waste container labeled "halogen rich organics" -- you know, the one waste container organic labs have to collect stuff thats Really Not Supposed to end up in living things. You don't really need a safety assessment to intuit that this is just a grossly weird thing to put in a drink.
- djtango 3y agoI was a Chemist and the only thing I can say sadly is that it also took Chemists to come up with brominated vegetable oil sadly...
- galangalalgol 3y agoIsn't it essentially a surfactant? Edible soap seems an odd thing to put in a beverage, but I do think mountain dew tasted better with it. The same argument regarding thyroid health can be made against flouridated water and toothpaste, but that concern already got shut down as a conspiracy theory.
- isoprophlex 3y agoIIRC from a technological point of view these things are pretty clever, as they have a very high specific gravity (because bromine), you can use them to emulsify other oils that are less dense than water and end up with something that's at almost the same density as water.
- Loic 3y agoFrom an historical point of view, food and soap industries were essentially one industry sharing the same raw materials.