food
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The Mad Scientists At Jell-O Have Figured Out How To Make Edible Slime
Not content with just re-engineering the classic Jell-O formula so that the dessert can be used to make jiggly toy building blocks, a team of food scientists hidden away somewhere in Kraft Foods’ secret laboratories asked a question no one has ever asked before: what if slime was edible?
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How Much Human Skin Does A Person Ingest Over The Course Of Their Lifetime?
The average American eats over 900kg of food a year. This breaks down to roughly 285kg of milk, cheese and ice cream, 84kg of meat, and an increasingly high dosage of anti-depressants. But where does human flesh fit in? Humans shed something like 500 million skin cells a day. The fact is that these literal…
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Scientists Say They Have Found Microplastics In People’s Poop, But Don’t Worry Just Yet
The more we look, the more we find potentially toxic microplastics — the tiny bits of debris that our plastic products crumble into — everywhere in the environment, the surrounding wildlife, and even our food. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that new research released this week suggests that microplastics can end up…
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Don’t Tell People Coffee Causes Cancer, FDA Warns California
The US Food and Drug Administration is trying to stop the state of California from going ahead and abiding with a controversial court decision, one that would mandate coffee sold in the state come with a label warning people it could cause cancer.