ingredient lables can be pretty long. I think we need a QR code with this and much more information. it should be able to back track where you product came from and such.

The problem is a lot of nasty things come from less scary sounding things. For example:

Ingredient: Ricin, Where it comes from: Castor beans, What it's used for: Poison.

I wish. That would be rad.

Inb4 food corporations go: Water - water - extra weight for cheap

Get back in the toothpaste!

You're one of my favourite terpenes

Peanut butter:

• ingredient: Peanut
• Where it comes from: Peanut
• What it does: Peanut?

I would like to see this but for laws as well. Just cut down all that self-important job security and say what it is in plain english

“Spices, natural and artificial flavors”

Mmm tastes like freedom and definitely not a corporate hellscape.

In Europe it is necessary that all food products contain such a list of all ingredients.

Example: Coke ZERO. Ingredients: Water, carbonic acid, colorant E150d, souring agent phosphate acid, sweetening agent (sodium cyclamate, acesulfam K, aspartam), natural flavor, flavor coffeine, acid regulator sodium citrate.

I translated that by hand so it probably contains mistakes.

In my country at least, there's a conspiracy theory, that claims citric acid is a toxic acid invented by the nazis then given the name to link it to a healthy and alkalizing (!!!) fruit.

That's a chemical. It's also an acid: To some, it's better known as hydroxic acid.

May contain traces of dihydrogen monoxide

Found this on Wikipedia:

Deionized water is very often used as an ingredient in many cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. "Aqua" is the standard name for water in the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients standard, which is mandatory on product labels in some countries.

Judging from the text on the left, with it not doing animal testing etc., it looks like it targets more 'conscious' consumers in general...

I'm definitely bad mouthing the goddamn palm oil.

If you bring calcium within sniffing distance of fluorine, you get calcium fluoride... just make sure you don't have anything else close to the fluorine, including you.

Also, it's basically just mined and purified as-is, it's pretty common.

The Big Bang

It's a rock

https://www.amazon.com/Calcium-Fluoride-Fluorspar-Powder-98-5/dp/B07T8ZL29L/

It looks like kingfisher tube. They are well known for their toothpaste without flouride but also has with flouride.

Ingredients are probably listed like that because the target group cares about what they use.

That article you linked seems to be saying that palm oil is actually really good?

It says that it is a major driver of deforestation because people are tearing down trees to grow more of it because it's a very useful and versatile oil.

It later says that switching away from palm oil isn't a solution because palm oil is actually such an efficient crop that if you used something else the amount of land needed to produce enough oil would drive far more deforestation.

The article is a call for more regulation on deforestation, not a call to not use palm oil. It in fact almost argues the opposite.

That is not really true and is more fear mongering. Palm oil is much better than any alternative that can be grown in the same regions. The issue is not palm oil but amount of consumption. Palm oil actually takes up less land than other crops that can produce that type of oil.

Fair point.

I think you're reading it too pessimistically. There are so many people out there saying, "If you can't pronounce it or know where it's from, then it's straight POISON!"

There are artificial ores. There are people who will want to know the water they used was clean (the purified water). This looks like a great way to educate people on what they're using and to learn not to be afraid of big, complicated words.

What, you don’t feel more informed to know that your glycerin comes from a miscellaneous vegetable?

Natural ore made me laugh. I mean, asbestos and beryllium are naturally occurring ores too…

You can find those things out. Natural ore means it comes from natural deposits (its not a lab-formulated compound).

Some people prefer natural ingredients. Thats it.

Otherwise its very common with synthetic or refined chemical ingredients in toothpaste, like:

• Sodium fluoride / stannous fluoride (lab-produced, though based on natural elements)

• Artificial abrasives (engineered silica)

• Detergents like sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)

• Synthetic preservatives, flavors, or colorants

Same reason people want to grow their own food. They know whats in it and what they put in their body.

Sure, this is still a marketing strategy that could be exploited by bad corps, but it is a step in the right direction. This is where rules to define those terms accurately would be a good use of regulations.

It kinda looks nice unless you actually read it, or know what words mean.

Teaching children is pointless because it might look nice, but if you already know the stuff then you would recognize that it's all fairly trivial, well-known stuff. No reason to point it out.

It's homeopathic nonsense. None of those are accepted names for the substances they are talking about, and they don't specify a quantity so it could be essentially zero for some of them.