in Australia we have shops that sell American candy, im pretty sure it’s illegal because many of those ingredients aren’t allowed in Australian food HFCS being just one because you can’t buy it in supermarkets… i assume it’s just not enforced. like illegal vapes that they also sell to children here.
I’m confused. I’ve been using Swedish Fish to potty train my kiddo so I’m obviously concerned. But I don’t see any of the scary substances on the ingredients: SUGAR, INVERT SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF CITRIC ACID, WHITE MINERAL OIL, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, RED 40, CARNAUBA WAX
Mineral oil supposedly. Do your own research since it’s your kid, but it’s considered food safe here. Food grade mineral oil is used on knives and cutting boards regularly.
And being allergic to Red 40 sucks. It causes severe breathing issues for me. I developed the allergy later in my 20’s, probably from eating it too much.
Jolly Ranchers hard candy has mineral oil in them.
Most often, mineral oil is a liquid obtained from refining crude oil to make gasoline and other petroleum products … like a liquid version of petroleum jelly. Source
In the U.S. it is commonly found in phamacies and sold as a laxative. It is excellent for cutting boards and wooden spoons since it does not go rancid. It is usually the only approved oil/grease to use on food processing equipment. Commercial and home espresso machines use it to lubricate seals and gaskets.
sugar, corn syrup and water will make hard candy. after that, it’s just a matter of dialing in the amounts of flavorings and citric acid for some tartness
not really, at least not that I know of. the formation of hard candy kinda depends on how sugar acts once you get it above certain temperature points. there’s probably a materials engineer somewhere that can offer you a sol’n that mostly does what you want but in the traditional world of candymaking sugar does a lot more than just sweeten.
AFAIK mineral oil and petroleum jelly are considered food safe. In the food industry they are used as lubricant on machinery that comes into contact with food (like meat slicers or even soda machines). Petroleum jelly is also found in a lot of skin care products, like Vasoline, vapo-rub, makeup -removing cream, and is also used in lip balm.
That being said, oil & gas extraction has and is wreaking havoc on our environment and health. So, while these products may be safe for human contact, they have a cost.
The UK doesn’t deem them safe for human consumption tho, because they err on the side of caution instead of allowing big oil and/or corps to do what they want.
Also google the things that cause cancer. Anything causes cancer because cancer is just something DNA does. I understand the fear of it and you should avoid things that cause it but your eyeballs aren’t gonna melt.
The sun causes cancer, sunscreen causes cancer, not enough sun probably causes cancer.
You’re gonna die one day my friend but it won’t be because of mineral oil.
If everything around us and inside us isn’t somehow related to the oil industry, we Americans would wither and die immediately. Don’t you know?
Serious answer though: The FDA is slow, inefficient, and likely paid off from banning chemicals, but every once in a blue they do. States like California take a more proactive role in banning chemicals, and since California has an economy larger than some nations, they tend to have a lot of pull, so all is not lost. America is more like the EU these days than a cohesive nation. Some states are cool, some are ok, some are Texas…but…yeah, we really suck as a whole.
Not sure about all that as mercury is a liquid at room temperature and I’m unfamiliar with the history of Santa Cruz, but I wasn’t necessarily trying to say California was a guardian of the future. Just that, in this example, they’re large enough in economies of scale that occasionally their decisions have enough weight to help others elsewhere, and that US states sometimes are able to effect improvement via this scale that the US Federal government is incapable of due to it’s Star Warsian ineptitude. Much like how the EU is forcing the Apples of the world to embrace standards like USB-C. Also most of Silicon Valley is basically a giant superfund site, so they got a lot of 'splainin to do.
We classify mineral oil as food safe. It’s a powerful laxative and you really wouldn’t want to get a lot of it in your food but I use it on my cutting boards to keep them from drying out and cracking.
They are though and I say that as someone that loved them. If you’re talking about the Reese’s specifically, they’ve gotten shittier than they used to be. Lower-quality peanut butter, worse chocolate. They’re gross now.
American chocolate really is trash. Head to Aldi and get some Schogetten or Choceur. You’ll taste how much better the chocolate is.
(Seiyu stopped making Reece's here (almost?) entirely so I only get them when family sends them or someone on one of the military bases is feeling kind and gifts us a pack).
And they’re saying they can make it without the shitty ingredients, they don’t wanna if they don’t have to.
The manufacturers of Lemonheads, Starburst Gummies, Hershey’s and Jolly Ranchers told the BBC their products were produced legally in the USA and that any products being sold in the UK were being done so illegally, and not associated with their brands.
I think you’re right, I thought they made both but I’m not 100% on either way now. Daily Mail has a good article about it, which is kind of surprising too.
Honestly I’ve never realized before that from that low-quarter-view, the eagles actually look kinda cute and friendly, not intimidating like from the side or ridiculous like from the front.
It’s the eye socket and positioning. You can kind of see the pocket created by their “brow” in that picture, but we see them as intimidating or what have you, because we are trying to interpret facial expressions as language.
Have you ever heard a Golden eagle call? They hae a weak thin call, like a seagull. This isn’t macho enough for the US, so they always play a different call on films, that of a hawk!
Calcium Disodium EDTA, which is banned within drinks in the UK, was found in Mountain Dew.
In animal studies, the crystalline powder caused adverse reproductive and developmental effects and has been shown to contribute to cancer of the colon.
No evidence exists suggesting the compound exerts genotoxic or carcinogenic effects. Overall, Calcium Disodium EDTA seems to be safe for use as a food additive, as the noted toxic doses are higher than can be achieved via the addition of Calcium Disodium EDTA to food. However, human data is limited and the gross of available (human and animal) data, as well as the ADI, stems from several decades ago.
However, that paper is almost a decade old. I found this one from just a couple years ago which states:
Numerous studies in healthy animals have shown no considerable acute or repeat dose toxicity of EDTA. Based on a no observed adverse effects level (NOAEL) of 250 mg/kg body weight (bw) for Fe-EDTA, international authorities recommend an acceptable daily intake (ADI) of maximum 1.9 mg EDTA/kg bw for humans.
I worked with someone who downed several bottles of Mt. Dew a day. One day he was laying on the floor of the office and I had to take him to the ER for kidney stones.
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