Candy company Mars Inc. confirmed that it has stopped making Skittles with titanium dioxide, a food additive that is used to whiten foods, toothpastes, and various cosmetic products.
Mars Inc. told Bloomberg News that titanium dioxide had been “removed from all Skittles production at the end of last year.” The company’s removal of the food additive comes after the European Union banned titanium dioxide in 2022 due to “concerns that nanoparticles of the substance might accumulate in the body and damage DNA.”
Titanium dioxide is described as “a synthetically produced white pigment, manufactured from naturally occurring ores,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website.
The food additive “is often used to impart whiteness to food products, cosmetics and personal care items, like toothpaste,”
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