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I 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 ago
  Isn'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 ago
    IIRC 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 ago
    From an historical point of view, food and soap industries were essentially one industry sharing the same raw materials.