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by asquabventured 577 days ago
Hopefully just food grade mineral oil and beeswax if it was a wooden bowl.
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Mistletoe 577 days ago
It was one of those you might get at Pier 1 or Kohl’s back then and had a really plasticky coating. Not my best moment.
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kaikai 576 days ago
Unfortunately mineral oil is derived from petroleum. I don’t care if someone says it’s food grade, I wouldn’t want to eat it.
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zdragnar 576 days ago
Paraffin wax (chocolate), polyethylene glycol (toothpaste), vanillin (vanilla flavoring), benzaldehyde (almond flavoring), and the plastic coating on medicine pills are all derived from petroleum.

You've likely been eating or using food grade petroleum products your whole life.

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