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Food Additive Alters Digestive Cell Structure


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Food Additive Found in Candy, Gum Could Alter Digestive Cell Structure and Function

The ability of small intestine cells to absorb nutrients and act as a barrier to pathogens is "significantly decreased" after chronic exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, a common food additive found in everything from chewing gum to bread, according to research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Researchers exposed a small intestinal cell culture model to the physiological equivalent of a meal's worth of titanium oxide nanoparticles -- 30 nanometers across -- over four hours (acute exposure), or three meal's worth over five days (chronic exposure).

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Not just in candy either, i.e. quite widespread - see this link!  It increases free radicals and promotes chronic inflammation.

http://theheartysoul.com/foods-with-titanium-dioxide/

It's E171 - white colour - approved in EU and US

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