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Storm in a cupcake: How Miranda star sparked pandemonium after question over
'edible glitter' she used on Great British Bake Off reveals it's 'not to be consumed' (Sunday Mail)
Not sure how this issue translates regarding cake glitter in the U.S.A.
But probably the "edible" v. "non-toxic" definitions hold true here, too.
'edible glitter' she used on Great British Bake Off reveals it's 'not to be consumed' (Sunday Mail)
Wait. What?She may be best known as the joke-shop manager in the hit TV comedy Miranda, but actress Sarah Hadland has stirred up a serious row over whether cake glitter is safe to eat.
When she appeared on a special charity edition of The Great British Bake Off, Sarah admitted that she did not know whether the product she had just sprinkled over her red velvet cupcakes was edible.
Her reaction to the question posed by Paul Hollywood, judge of the Sports Relief edition of the BBC2 show, prompted so much panic among viewers that ‘edible glitter’ has now been registered as one of the top ten food concerns in Britain by the Food Standards Agency.
So that cleared that up, yes?For years, cake glitter has been sold in pots labelled either ‘edible’ or ‘non-toxic’. Edible glitter is made from starch-based food products that can be digested by the body.
Non-toxic glitter is manufactured from plastic and is not digestible.
Terrence Collis, the FSA’s director of communications, initially wrote on its website in February: ‘Buy it [glitter] from the baking section of the shop (not an art shop), check the label says it’s edible and check the ingredients to see that it’s made of something edible, otherwise you could be covering your cupcakes with plastic!’
the rest of it at link aboveHe then created a muddle by also suggesting there was nothing wrong in eating non-toxic glitter, writing on an FSA blog: ‘Remember that non-toxic doesn’t mean that you can’t eat it.’
This resulted in thousands more people flocking to the FSA website and Facebook cooking forums demanding a definitive answer on whether non-toxic glitter was safe to consume.
The FSA eventually ruled it should not be eaten.
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Not sure how this issue translates regarding cake glitter in the U.S.A.
But probably the "edible" v. "non-toxic" definitions hold true here, too.