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Looked at the incredients in some walmart Great Value brand hot chocolate... found silicone dioxide listed as ingredient for anti-caking. Really?? Sand?? Basically getting scammed. Wouldn't be surprised to see saw dust as an ingredient from Dollar Tree coco.

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Sand (so not nanoparticles) sounds like a good choice to me. Nice and inert. What matters is how much there is.

Unless you think they're lying about it being anti-caking?

I thought the article was telling us that it's not inert?

edit (can't delete): oh you're talking about eating 'sand'

The article is telling us that nanoparticles are not inert. But that's much smaller than sand or silt.

Nothing thats nano is inert.

That being said even inert things can act as catalysts, and even if they don't act as catalysts, they can sterically interfere with reactions

I assume we eat lots of dust especially if you live in a dry climate next to a desert.

But its not nano

https://academic.oup.com/toxres/article/11/4/565/6645393

Has the sources of silica nano particles.

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