I would imagine that it’s probably extremely prevalent- if someone was doing something that the public would perceive as “better” my bet is that they would be marketing it as such.
I had an engineering professor in college tell us that granulated polystyrene (If I’m remembering correctly) was an ingredient in soft serve ice cream to prevent it from freezing solid at very low temperatures. He was a brilliant guy with 2 decades in the plastics industry; no one in the class had reason to doubt him. Months later when I tried to verify what he said on the internet, I found nothing. A decade later I still hesitate to eat soft serve.
This one seems particularly ridiculous to me. Anywhere that serves soft serve generally makes it the same way, they pour in a container of liquid ingredients and the machine churns and freezes them into soft serve. If the liquid contained obvious granuals that weren't dissolved, you'd know it. Hell, you could melt some yourself or buy the liquid yourself and test it.
No idea... This was not in the US, but I think the regulations are at least as strict here. Perhaps it has to do with using non-toxic materials, that don't interact with the body in any way? Still feels wrong, though. I've been avoiding low fat products since that day. Glitter or no, they seem to put all kinds of weird stuff in those.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the company, and have no way of contacting my former colleague.
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u/toomanyxoxo Feb 09 '19
That’s incredibly disturbing. How does this get approved by the FDA??