The connection between diacetyl and the devastating lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans.
Is Artificial Butter Flavor Harmful?
5/5 - (3 votes)
What about the artificial flavor, diacetyl—the artificial butter flavor in microwave and movie theater popcorn? Harmful, harmless, or helpful? And the answer is: harmful.
There’s even a name for it: popcorn lung, also known as bronchiolitis obliterans, because it can obliterate your airways. It’s given off as vapor when you nuke it. And you know, when workers have to wear gas masks to handle your food, it’s probably not a good idea to eat it.
Microwave popcorn manufacturers are now replacing the chemical with real butter. So now, instead of dying of lung disease, we can die of heart disease.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.
Please consider volunteering to help out on the site.
Image thanks to @bastique via Flickr.
What about the artificial flavor, diacetyl—the artificial butter flavor in microwave and movie theater popcorn? Harmful, harmless, or helpful? And the answer is: harmful.
There’s even a name for it: popcorn lung, also known as bronchiolitis obliterans, because it can obliterate your airways. It’s given off as vapor when you nuke it. And you know, when workers have to wear gas masks to handle your food, it’s probably not a good idea to eat it.
Microwave popcorn manufacturers are now replacing the chemical with real butter. So now, instead of dying of lung disease, we can die of heart disease.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.
Please consider volunteering to help out on the site.
Image thanks to @bastique via Flickr.
Comparte "Is Artificial Butter Flavor Harmful?"
Términos
Puedes compartir este material en la red o impreso bajo nuestra licencia Creative Commons. Deberás atribuir el artículo a NutritionFacts.org y agregar la liga a nuestro sitio en tu publicación
Si se realizan cambios en el texto o video original, se debe indicar, razonablemente, lo que ha cambiado en relación con el artículo o el video.
No se puede usar nuestro contenido para propósitos comerciales.
No puede aplicar términos legales o medidas tecnológicas que restrinjan a otros a hacer cualquier cosa permitida aquí.
Si tienes alguna duda, por favor Contáctanos
Título
Is Artificial Butter Flavor Harmful?
LicenciaCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
URLNota del Doctor
For more on diacetyl’s link to bronchiolitis:
Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn or Breathing
And check out my other “HHH” videos (Harmful, Harmless, or Helpful?).
For more context, see my associated blog post: Soy milk: shake it up! and Avoid Butter-Flavored Microwave Popcorn.
Échale un vistazo a la página de información sobre los recursos traducidos.
Video anterior
Siguiente video
