[deevolution]

Looked at the incredients in some walmart Great Value brand hot chocolate... found silicone dioxide listed as ingredient for anti-caking. Really?? Sand?? Basically getting scammed. Wouldn't be surprised to see saw dust as an ingredient from Dollar Tree coco.

[Dylan16807]

Sand (so not nanoparticles) sounds like a good choice to me. Nice and inert. What matters is how much there is.

Unless you think they're lying about it being anti-caking?

[pazimzadeh]

I thought the article was telling us that it's not inert?

edit (can't delete): oh you're talking about eating 'sand'

[sbaiddn]

Nothing thats nano is inert.

That being said even inert things can act as catalysts, and even if they don't act as catalysts, they can sterically interfere with reactions

[adrr]

I assume we eat lots of dust especially if you live in a dry climate next to a desert.

[sbaiddn]

But its not nano

[adrr]

https://academic.oup.com/toxres/article/11/4/565/6645393

Has the sources of silica nano particles.

[Dylan16807]

The article is telling us that nanoparticles are not inert. But that's much smaller than sand or silt.