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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 ...
In 2012, Wayne Watson, a regular microwavable popcorn consumer for years, was awarded US$7.27 million in damages from a federal jury in Denver, which decided his lung disease was caused by the chemicals in microwave popcorn and that the popcorn's manufacturer, Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, and the grocery store that sold it should have warned ...
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 ...
Microwave and movie popcorn are less-healthy options . Microwave popcorn often contains high amounts of salt and flavorings, and may contain chemicals. “Make sure to take a look at the nutrition ...
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 ...