Are food aromas safe?

[Username]

I consider ordering some food aromas similar to this one:

"For food use! This gives it a delicious taste of Cookie to your
food preparations. Water soluble! USAGE A few drops are enough to
impart a pleasant flavour to your dishes. PACKAGE CONTENTS:
Pineapple Cookie flask 10 ml. Ingredients. Flavor, propylene
glycol, water."

Are they ok? I thought they might be a nice addition to keto deserts and stuff.

[Preety_India]

Lol no. Just no. 

 

 

[Username]

How do you know? Ingredients contains "flavours" which is unknown - it can be neutral or bad. I don't want to make any assumptions, that's why I'm asking.

If there are safe alternatives I would like to hear about them.

[OmAhHungVajraGuru]

Ahh i thought you were asking a completely different question. 

I always smell the aromas of bbq's or deep fried foods & I wonder if just the smell & smoke going into my nose is having a bad effect. 

And jeez, use herbs and spices for aroma, that stuff looks terrible.

[Preety_India]

Tell me how they are safe? 

 

[Michael569]

you're usually talking about milligrams of substance, yeah there may be additives but in such a tiny amount they are no issue. There are worse things we do to our bodies, I mean....people fry steaks on butter and gril bacon on an open fire lol,. Something like this won't really make a difference. 

[Preety_India]

@Michael569 do you know that sometimes such products could carry carcinogenic compounds? 

Not always though. 

 

[Michael569]

2 minutes ago, Preety_India said:

do you know that sometimes such products could carry carcinogenic compounds? 

unlikely in those amounts. We are talking about few drops per meal. Cancer doesn't develop from one thing, it is an accumulation of at least 50 - 100 types of offences and a combination of genetic, lifestyle and environmental exposure over 20-40 years. All these studies saying for example "dairy causes cancer" etc are usually poorly constructed because one single thing cannot give you cancer (unless you eat coal brick for dinner I guess) 

[Preety_India]

@Michael569  I did not exactly imply that they would cancer. You kinda jumped the gun. 

I said they could contain carcinogenic compounds. 

Now I don't exactly eat a coal brick for dinner, but does the following sound delicious to you - 

 

 

 

 

https://detoxandprosper.com/toxin-list/dangers-of-artificial-flavors/

 

[Michael569]

@Preety_India  Again we are talking about milligrams of chemicals. You breathe in more in the first 20 seconds when entering the main street in your city (or any city). 

I don't dispute that they may be harmful but once again there are bigger factors here that are 1000 times more harmful. 

 

[Username]

@Michael569  Thank you for your response!

I got banana one. It smells nice but it doesn't give any taste - it may trick you if you also use some stevia. It could feel it inside of me for two hours after consuming "banana" yoghurt - it feels like eating fragrances. It's not something I would like to use on a daily basis.

[Opo]

On 24/03/2021 at 10:45 AM, Michael569 said:

I mean....people fry steaks on butter and gril bacon on an open fire lol,. Something like this won't really make a difference. 

Is it okay to make steaks on ghee and bacon on the smoke above the flames?