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I might be remembering things wrong, but doesn't a lot of chewing gum have Titanium Dioxide as its whitening agent for teeth?

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Titanium Dioxide is used practically everywhere. Its the "white coloring" in paint, food,skincare, medicine,plastics,paper, coatings,inks,etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_dioxide

It's also widely used in milk, to cover up the blue color of milk from industrial milk production facilities where thousands of animals are locked up in big metal sheds with poor quality food.

Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.

Milk is naturally blue. It’s the fat emulsion that covers it up. That’s why skim milk has a blue tinge.

Milk is in fact white. Source: grew up on a farm.

Actually, raw milk has an ivory / yellow tint (depending how much grass the cows have eaten vs hay). Grain and soy feeding tends to produce white milk however.

Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows the difference. The store bought milk suddenly looks bleached white, like liquid paper.

Milk is white, only skim milk is blue, so they sometimes add titanium dioxide as color, but it has to be listed on the ingredients.

> Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.

Thats illegal, they have at least to mention "Artificial coloring"

the dairy industry get's special dispensation

According to this, it has to be disclosed: https://www.worldrd.com/big-dairy-really-putting-microscopic...

Also it's only added to skim milk, ratacat post about industrial milk and whatever isn't true.

It's in the hard shell coating in gums used to keep the soft gum core fresher and chewier. This has been tested by dissolving the shell and separating it from the gum.

Pretty sure it forms the white shell on mm's and Smarties.

M&M's and the hard shell coating chewing gum are among the highest concentrations in food. Also, white frosting and pudding.

don`t know for chewing gum, but it`s in tooth paste as well

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