Edible Glitter vs Disco Dust: Which Ones Can You Eat?
Edible glitter or disco dust? The name on the jar tells you nothing, and this is the episode about what does. The FDA publishes the list of names these shimmer products are sold under — luster dust, disco dust, twinkle dust, sparkle dust, highlighter, shimmer powder, pearl dust, petal dust — and advises avoiding all of them on food unless the product was specifically manufactured to be edible. Those words describe texture, and they describe it honestly: roughly 5 to 25 microns for the fine metallic sheen, 50 to 500 for the coarse flakes that stay suspended in a glass. What they never describe…
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