Doughnuts Dusted with Nanopowder? Blech!

There are nanosize particles in your food. Does this make you nervous?Food companies have been interested in using nanotechnology to intensify flavors and make products creamier without added fat. But that has nothing to do with the titanium dioxide nanoparticles, less than 10 nanometers across, that were found recently in the powdered-sugar coating on doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts and the now defunct Hostess. The microscopic flakes may have ended up there by happenstance--a result of the milling process used on the powdered-sugar mixture. We may have been ingesting them for years. [More]

Source: Scientific American Topic - Nanotechnology - April 15, 2013 Category: Nanotechnology Tags: More Science Source Type: news