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  • Re: Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting

    From Your Name@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Fri Jan 10 10:25:51 2025
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    On 2025-01-09 20:16:29 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/01/09

    What in the world is Polysorbate 60 and why would I want it in my body ?

    Lynn

    Polysorbates are an emulsifier used in many products - foods,
    cosmetics, household cleaners, etc. As the comic strip says, one use is
    to keep creamy ingredients creamy, whether that artifical cream in a
    Twinkie or the creamy texture of a liquid soap. There is nothing wrong
    with eating or using it, unless of course you do it to idiotic
    extremes, like anything else.

    There are many different polysorbates - "Polysorbate 20", "Polysorbate
    60", etc. The number indicates (to chemists anyway) which type of fatty
    acid it contains.

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Your Name on Thu Jan 9 16:40:09 2025
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    On 1/9/2025 4:25 PM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-01-09 20:16:29 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting
        https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/01/09

    What in the world is Polysorbate 60 and why would I want it in my body ?

    Lynn

    Polysorbates are an emulsifier used in many products - foods, cosmetics, household cleaners, etc. As the comic strip says, one use is to keep
    creamy ingredients creamy, whether that artifical cream in a Twinkie or
    the creamy texture of a liquid soap. There is nothing wrong with eating
    or using it, unless of course you do it to idiotic extremes, like
    anything else.

    There are many different polysorbates - "Polysorbate 20", "Polysorbate
    60", etc. The number indicates (to chemists anyway) which type of fatty
    acid it contains.

    And, famously, polysorbate 80:

    https://zippythepinhead.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZTP&Product_Code=1-Jan-19

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    We're living in a world where facts instantly perish
    upon contact with human minds. - George Packer

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 9 22:14:52 2025
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    In article <vlpesu$3htmu$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-01-09 20:16:29 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/01/09

    What in the world is Polysorbate 60 and why would I want it in my body ?

    Lynn

    Polysorbates are an emulsifier used in many products - foods,
    cosmetics, household cleaners, etc. As the comic strip says, one use is

    So you're saying it's a floor wax *and* a dessert topping?
    --
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    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Ted Nolan on Fri Jan 10 12:54:59 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    On 2025-01-09 22:14:52 +0000, [email protected] (Ted Nolan said:
    In article <vlpesu$3htmu$[email protected]>,
    Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2025-01-09 20:16:29 +0000, Lynn McGuire said:

    Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/01/09

    What in the world is Polysorbate 60 and why would I want it in my body ? >>>
    Lynn

    Polysorbates are an emulsifier used in many products - foods,
    cosmetics, household cleaners, etc. As the comic strip says, one use is

    So you're saying it's a floor wax *and* a dessert topping?

    Could well be, as well as women's face creams, and many many more
    products. It simply keeps whatever it is in creamy by acting as an
    anti-oxidant chemical. It has no taste or flavouring.

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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jan 9 23:18:05 2025
    XPost: rec.arts.sf.written

    Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
    Over The Hedge: Twinkie Harvesting
    https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2025/01/09

    What in the world is Polysorbate 60 and why would I want it in my body ?

    It's the important nutrient that makes Zippy the Pinhead what he is.
    Googling "Zippy the Pinhead Polysorbate-80" should bring up some cartoons. --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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