> Not eating ingredients you can't pronounce or recognize is a great rule of thumb
Bullshit. So because we call cacao beans cacao beans, they're okay to eat, but because we call whatever whatever, it's not? Do you really base your decisions for what's okay and not based upon whether you've heard the English word for a substance? How do you cope when you travel to a place wherein you do not speak the language? Do you engage in a panic when someone tells you about residual radioactivity in almost every living thing on the planet?
So you have vanilla in your chocolate. Should I explain to you the chemical composition of vanilla? What you call "vanilla" is actually a compound of unpronounceable things; would you be concerned if I told you a number of them have MSDS sheets? The primary component of vanilla is vanillin. You know what vanillin is really called, its IUPAC name?
4-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde.
Your comment represents everything wrong with the Internet era of pseudoscience. Absolutely everything. You're really in the same bucket as Jenny McCarthy with a comment like that. I realize this is a mean reply (I'm honestly just passionate about willful and flagrant misinformation on the Internet), but come on. You are actively harming the public if you proselytize stuff like this, especially considering that most people just parrot what they hear without comprehension; one need look no further than Jimmy Kimmel's "which is better, the ACA or Obamacare?" segment for evidence of that.
And you're stupid for pretending that because vanilla has a chemical name therefore people shouldn't wonder what all the chemicals are doing in their food. QED.
Bullshit. So because we call cacao beans cacao beans, they're okay to eat, but because we call whatever whatever, it's not? Do you really base your decisions for what's okay and not based upon whether you've heard the English word for a substance? How do you cope when you travel to a place wherein you do not speak the language? Do you engage in a panic when someone tells you about residual radioactivity in almost every living thing on the planet?
So you have vanilla in your chocolate. Should I explain to you the chemical composition of vanilla? What you call "vanilla" is actually a compound of unpronounceable things; would you be concerned if I told you a number of them have MSDS sheets? The primary component of vanilla is vanillin. You know what vanillin is really called, its IUPAC name?
4-Hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde.
Your comment represents everything wrong with the Internet era of pseudoscience. Absolutely everything. You're really in the same bucket as Jenny McCarthy with a comment like that. I realize this is a mean reply (I'm honestly just passionate about willful and flagrant misinformation on the Internet), but come on. You are actively harming the public if you proselytize stuff like this, especially considering that most people just parrot what they hear without comprehension; one need look no further than Jimmy Kimmel's "which is better, the ACA or Obamacare?" segment for evidence of that.