Food Babe

Top 5 Chemistry Fails by the Food Babe – Jeff Holiday Guest Video

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The food babe, for those of you who don’t know, has basically made a very comfortable living for herself from searching for a chemical used in food manufacture that also has another use in industry, and telling people to not eat it ...

Colour to Dye For

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Edited by Peter There are many people I interact with on a daily basis who I believe have an irrational fear of chemicals. Not a specific chemical, but chemicals in general which, as a chemist, I find utterly ridiculous. The origins of this chemophobia may lie in the past use of chemical weapons and industrial disasters, but it has since moved into the realm of fantasy where specific chemicals ...

Is There Really Airplane Deicing Liquid in Beer

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The Food Babe seems to have an obsession with demanding that certain chemicals must not be used in the manufacture of food simply because they have alternative industrial uses. Recently she has gone after something very close to my heart…beer. She tells us that “ingredients found in airplane de-icing liquids” are put in beer but is there any truth to this? The Intentionally ...

The Intentionally Misleading Food Babe

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Edited by Peter I have previously written about the Food Babe and her obsession with demanding that certain chemicals must not be used in the manufacture of food simply because they have alternative industrial uses. I gave an example of how in 2013, she led a campaign to ban the use of azodicarbonamide in the production of Subway sandwiches because it also happens to be used in manufacture of ...