Star Shaped Edible Glitter: What You're Actually Buying
Is there star-shaped edible glitter? Not in the way most people mean, and the thing you actually found has a name. Small flat stars, hearts and snowflakes are sold as quins, confetti or shaped sprinkles, and they are a sugar confection — typical commercial sprinkle ingredient lists start with sugar, then cornstarch, oil, wax, food dyes and flavoring. Edible glitter is a different product class: a loose mineral pigment in pieces running 50 to 500 microns, a size at which a cut star would read as a speck rather than a star. The two fail differently, which is why people blame the wrong one…
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