{"id":186,"date":"2006-01-25T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T03:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/01\/brominated_vegetable_oil\/"},"modified":"2012-10-13T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T01:32:01","slug":"brominated_vegetable_oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/01\/brominated_vegetable_oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Brominated Vegetable Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading through some ingredients today, this time on a can of Sparkling Black Cherry Fresca. I came across one called &#8220;brominated vegetable oil&#8221;. Concerned after my <A HREF=\"\/ted\/2005\/12\/inulin\/\">last experience<\/A>, I went to Google to find a Wikipedia <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brominated_vegetable_oil\">article<\/A> about it. Although it is apparently banned in some countries, it doesn&#8217;t seem harmful except in their example where a man drank eight liters of Ruby Red Squirt (containing &#8220;bvo&#8221;) a day and came down with a case of bromoderma which turned his skin red. Given that many servings of Squirt, it seems lucky that&#8217;s all he came down with.<\/p>\n<p>Fresca is an amazing witch&#8217;s brew of other funky ingredients. Sure there are the regulars: potassium citrate, potassium benzoate, and EDTA, but it also has carob bean gum, glycerol ester of wood rosin, and acacia, though I imagine most soft drinks refer to these only as &#8220;natural and artificial flavors&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading through some ingredients today, this time on a can of Sparkling Black Cherry Fresca. I came across one called &#8220;brominated vegetable oil&#8221;. Concerned after my last experience, I went to Google to find a Wikipedia article about it. Although it is apparently banned in some countries, it doesn&#8217;t seem harmful except in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2006\/01\/brominated_vegetable_oil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brominated Vegetable Oil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}