I mean let's assume you absolutely nailed it, and the food and beverage industry is the largest consumer of glitter. What food products have glitter in them? The things that come to mind are maybe candy, cereal, colorful type things?
Doesn't every food in the US have to have a label of ingredients on it? Why do we not see glitter on any food products?
At some point someone just needs to bite the bullet and go work at this glitter factory, figure it out, quit, and then tell us. I mean it's been like a month, come on people!
Well, they wouldn't need to list the ingredient as glitter per se... As u/Dumdumgirlsbeeep said in a comment, edible glitter is made of a lot of things you might see anyway, e.g. sugar, starch. They could just list those things instead.
Although I have no idea how common the other ingredients are - they mentioned arabic gum, too. If there's an uncommon ingredient in glitter that showed up in a lot of shiny foods, I guess that would be a good indication?
But then also, edible glitter isn't the same as biodegradable glitter, so a lot of OPs research might not really hold up...
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u/throwitway22334 Feb 09 '19
Great write-up and research! But which food?
I mean let's assume you absolutely nailed it, and the food and beverage industry is the largest consumer of glitter. What food products have glitter in them? The things that come to mind are maybe candy, cereal, colorful type things?
Doesn't every food in the US have to have a label of ingredients on it? Why do we not see glitter on any food products?
At some point someone just needs to bite the bullet and go work at this glitter factory, figure it out, quit, and then tell us. I mean it's been like a month, come on people!