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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by ratacat on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:10AM (#17363604)
It's also widely used in milk, to cover up the blue color of milk from industrial milk production facilities where thousands of animals are locked up in big metal sheds with poor quality food.

Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.

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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by refurb on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:24AM (#17364436)
Milk is naturally blue. It’s the fat emulsion that covers it up. That’s why skim milk has a blue tinge.
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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by delian66 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:40AM (#17364528)
Milk is in fact white. Source: grew up on a farm.
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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by _red on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:49AM (#17366213)
Actually, raw milk has an ivory / yellow tint (depending how much grass the cows have eaten vs hay). Grain and soy feeding tends to produce white milk however.

Holding up a glass of grass fed cow milk to store bought milk really shows the difference. The store bought milk suddenly looks bleached white, like liquid paper.

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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by ars on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:18AM (#17365917)
Milk is white, only skim milk is blue, so they sometimes add titanium dioxide as color, but it has to be listed on the ingredients.
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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by FrozenVoid on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:20AM (#17363643)
> Strangely, they don't have to list the titanium dioxide in the ingredients.

Thats illegal, they have at least to mention "Artificial coloring"

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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by jlebrech on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:50AM (#17364207)
the dairy industry get's special dispensation
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Re:Association of Type 2 Diabetes with Titanium Dioxide Crys... by ars on Thursday June 21, 2018 @11:18AM (#17365907)
According to this, it has to be disclosed: https://www.worldrd.com/big-dairy-really-putting-microscopic...

Also it's only added to skim milk, ratacat post about industrial milk and whatever isn't true.

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