silicon dioxide is this food additive safe??

Question

I noticed that the food additive silicon dioxide is in a numer of foods.. is it safe since I think that it might cause a problem in the eye area of the head.. I think this food additive in my vitamens bothered my eyesight.

Answer 1

It's sand. It stops food from lumping up. My grandmother used to put uncooked rice in her saltshakers to stop the salt from lumping.

Answer 2

Silicon Dioxide In Food

Answer 3

Is Silicon Dioxide Safe

Answer 4

It's not good for you, but probably can't hurt you right away. Inhaling finely divided crystalline silica dust in significant quantities can lead to silicosis or (much more rarely) cancer, as the dust becomes lodged in the lungs and continuously irritates them (silica does not dissolve over time). This effect can be an occupational hazard for people working with sandblasting equipment, products that contain powdered silica, and so on.

In all other respects, silicon dioxide is inert and harmless. When silica is ingested orally, it passes unchanged through the gastrointestinal tract, exiting in the feces, leaving no trace behind. Small pieces of silicon dioxide are equally harmless, as long as they are not large enough to mechanically obstruct the GI tract, or jagged enough to lacerate its lining. Silicon dixoide produces no fumes and is insoluble in vivo. It is indigestible, with zero nutritional value and zero toxicity.

Answer 5

Unless you are drinking HF as a regular part of your diet, your body is incapable of digesting silicon dioxide. (And if you were drinking HF, you wouldn't be there anymore!)

"silicon dioxide is inert and harmless. When silica is ingested orally, it passes unchanged through the gastrointestinal tract, exiting in the feces, leaving no trace behind"

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Medicine (allopathic in particular -- the M.D.), no matter to what extent we tout and entrust our health to it, has not the light to know just what these substances do the human body: none really knows.

Much that is introduced into our nutrients serve the purpose of commerce, which marks the difference between the need of patients and the want of consumers.

Don't confuse the two. And in fact to know the difference is to assure for yourself a ticket to better health...

Medical science estimates through varied pharmacological and statistical means, yes, but how do we not know if what is thought normal or plausible is not in fact corruptive, except that we have been practicing the corruptive for so long that the abnormal appears, by default, normal.

Normal or safe are but terms set by curves, that's all, and are states that stand as the best we have, allopathically speaking, short of us having divine wisdom on the matters.

To that end, do as someone else suggested, see an allopathic physician (M.D.).

A flag should go up in your mind the minute that you behold an additive, which flag should be up all the time because there are few foods indeed that are not adulterated with additives -- they are in virtually all foods today.

Answer 8

Sand as a food additive ?

Answer 9

Its a chemical that s enough for me. I don t trust chemicals in food. Why put it in food or supplements if you can t digest it.It is for big money that s ALL.

Answer 10

I dont know about the efects in the eyes, but i know that this dust irritate the Gastrointestinal tract and can lead to cancer in some cases.