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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday proposed banning the use of brominated vegetable oil, a food ingredient once widely used in popular drinks like Gatorade and Mountain Dew that has been ...
Brominated vegetable oil, which is used to help keep citrus from rising to the top in beverages, has a toxic effect on the thyroid. The ingredient was once used in Mountain Dew. The ingredient was ...
Brominated vegetable oil is a stabilizer used in citrus-flavored beverages and was previously authorized by the FDA to be used in small amounts of 15 parts per million or lower.
Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is a complex mixture of plant-derived triglycerides that have been modified by atoms of the element bromine bonded to the fat molecules. Brominated vegetable oil has been used to help emulsify citrus -flavored beverages, especially soft drinks , preventing them from separating during distribution.
The FDA has announced a proposal to revoke the nationwide regulation authorizing the use of brominated vegetable oil in food. CNN Wellness medical expert Dr. Leana Wen answers questions about BVO.
Prior to 1988, the original formula of Limca contained brominated vegetable oil (BVO). After worldwide reports of ill effects of BVO, its use in soft drinks was banned in India. As a result of this ban, the formula for Limca was changed.
The last edit added a ref to a patent that contained a variety of partially or fully brominated oils - not specifically vegetable oil. "(a) quick-drying unsaturated oil(s), (b) terpene-containing volatile oil, (c) phosphate ester and (d) a boron compound as fungicidal component, in which the oils are at least partly brominated."
Brominated vegetable oil can accumulate in the body and has been linked to health hazards, according to the EWG. Those include nervous system damage, headaches, skin and mucous membrane irritation ...