Edible Glitter at Craft Stores: What to Check Before You Buy

The Monégasque Table · Aug 28, 2026 · 8m · transcript

Can you buy edible glitter at a craft store? Sometimes — but the aisle can't tell you which jar is food. Only the label can, and the test takes 10 seconds. Companies that make edible glitter are required by law to print an ingredient list on the label. So flip the jar: ingredients listed, it's in the running. No ingredient list — or a label leaning on "non-toxic" or "for decorative purposes only" — and it is not food, no matter which aisle it's shelved in. That's the FDA's own advice to bakers, nearly word for word. In this episode: - Why "non-toxic" is a craft word, not a food word — and why…