2009: Why Are Sand-Derived Products Added To Food?

By Ted Twietmeyer 12-26-9 Sometime ago, I revealed using Burger King’s ingredient list that silicon dioxide (commonly known as sand) is among several unpalatable ingredients used in their food products. [1] That old expression “Eat dirt” isn’t that far off from the truth when looking at fast food ingredients. Encompassing a quiet but huge market, silicone products come in many forms. Silicone oil outlawed in breast implants is just one of many members of the silicone products group. Silicone products are silicon oxide polymers, with organic attachments and are technically called polysiloxanes. [4] In simple terms silicones are POLYMERS. Just what is silicon oxide? It is a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth’s crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or […] Read More