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Microwave popcorn might deliver all the buttery, salty goodness we crave, but it comes with tons of fat, sodium, and chemicals you didn't bargain for.
Microwave popcorn might deliver all the buttery, salty goodness we crave, but it comes with tons of fat, sodium, and chemicals didn't bargain for.
You won’t have to worry about “forever chemicals” in your food packaging for much longer. According to a new statement from the Food and Drug Administration, products with perfluoroalkyl and ...
Microwave popcorn is a convenience food consisting of unpopped popcorn in an enhanced, sealed paper bag intended to be heated in a microwave oven. In addition to the dried corn, the bags typically contain cooking oil with sufficient saturated fat to solidify at room temperature, one or more seasonings (often salt ), and natural or artificial ...
Chronic industrial exposure to diacetyl fumes, such as in the microwave popcorn production industry, has been associated with bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of non-reversible obstructive lung disease in which the bronchioles (small airway branches) are compressed and narrowed by fibrosis (scar tissue) and/or ...
Diacetyl is a chemical used to produce the artificial butter flavoring [25] in many foods such as candy and microwave popcorn and occurring naturally in wines. This first came to public attention when eight former employees of the Gilster-Mary Lee popcorn plant in Jasper, Missouri developed bronchiolitis obliterans. Due to this event ...
Take a store bought bag of microwave popcorn for example: one serving of Orville Redenbacher's Popcorn with Movie Theater Butter has 11 grams of fat and 380 milligrams of sodium. The same ...
Microwaveable popcorn represents a special case, since it is designed to be cooked along with its various flavoring agents. One of these formerly common artificial-butter flavorants, diacetyl, has been implicated in causing respiratory illnesses in microwave popcorn factory workers, also known as "popcorn lung".