For a healthy diet, you must consume fresh fruits, vegetables and avoid packaged or processed food. When you buy packaged or processed food such as snacks, chocolate 🍫, canned drinks etc., do you read the ingredients? Do you ask yourself what you are consuming? Do you know what your body will have to digest and what your cells will be exposed to? Titanium dioxide is one of the ingredients that you want nothing to do with. For instance, I always listen to my body and check my reaction after I eat something, and I’ve never felt comfortable with coloured chocolate, so I’ve always avoided them. And now I have learned that I was right. Even though it was considered safe for many years, it was not. For decades, researchers and regulators thought titanium dioxide particles were large enough that the body did not absorb them and were quickly excreted. But newer research has found the nanoparticles are so small that they can be absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract and move into the bloodstream, where they can settle in organs. The FDA approved titanium dioxide for food use in 1966 and last reviewed it in 1973 when it concluded the chemical was safe. The law does not require the agency to review chemical safety periodically, and the petition mechanism is one of the very few ways the FDA can be compelled to review updated science. The chemical serves no purpose beyond colouring food, which is not essential to products.