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My aunt got me a big wooden bowl in college and I was poor so I ate popcorn out of it. I noticed the popcorn tasted weird for quite some time. I finally put two and two together when the coating had all come off the bottom. The hot popcorn and oil had been removing the God knows what shiny finish and I had been eating it. :(


We’ve all eaten teflon coating at some point in our lives.


Some of us, on purpose!


Hopefully just food grade mineral oil and beeswax if it was a wooden bowl.


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.


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.


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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