Friday, February 25, 2005
Dimethylpolysiloxane and You
Ever wonder what that long chemical name is that is listed on your food label?
I wondered, for example, what the heck dimethylpolysiloxane could be. I wanted to know because I have been battling a Long John Silver's craving for about a week now, and as I was looking at their nutrition information for my typical meal, trying to dissuade myself from eating there, I noticed that the dimethylpolysiloxane is in the fryer.
I checked my chemical paranoia with Inchem's webpage, where you can search all of these chemicals and see what it is the WHO has determined they do, exactly. Like, to mice, and rhesus monkeys, and other things (including people). A lot of the language is in a biochem language I don't speak, but there is enough there that you should be able to figure out what this stuff does to the body.
Looks like the dimethylpolysiloxane has been used therapeutically as an anti-flatulant, though likely in doses different from those you'd get at LJS. So maybe the dimethylpolysiloxane won't hurt me.
Maybe next the WHO should check the hushpuppies.
I wondered, for example, what the heck dimethylpolysiloxane could be. I wanted to know because I have been battling a Long John Silver's craving for about a week now, and as I was looking at their nutrition information for my typical meal, trying to dissuade myself from eating there, I noticed that the dimethylpolysiloxane is in the fryer.
I checked my chemical paranoia with Inchem's webpage, where you can search all of these chemicals and see what it is the WHO has determined they do, exactly. Like, to mice, and rhesus monkeys, and other things (including people). A lot of the language is in a biochem language I don't speak, but there is enough there that you should be able to figure out what this stuff does to the body.
Looks like the dimethylpolysiloxane has been used therapeutically as an anti-flatulant, though likely in doses different from those you'd get at LJS. So maybe the dimethylpolysiloxane won't hurt me.
Maybe next the WHO should check the hushpuppies.
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