The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent
The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent
www.popsci.com The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent
'It’s not magic, but it’s still very powerful.'
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“We strongly discourage attempting this on human skin, as the toxicology of dye molecules in humans, particularly when applied topically, has not been fully evaluated,” he tells Popular Science.
I feel like it's only a matter of time before this becomes a TikTok trend.
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Wait, let me get this straight: they're not even sure if Yellow #5/Tartrazine is safe to be applied topically, but it's FDA-approved to be ingested?
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Things absorbed through the skin may be in a different state when they reach your bloodstream than things that are ingested. The process of digestion can break down a lot of things that would otherwise be harmful, but aren't similarly filtered when absorbed through the skin.
It's also why some medicines are taken by swallowing a pill, and some are taken by dissolving a tablet under your tongue.
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Vinegar isn't good for the skin either. But healthy if ingested.
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Trump's way ahead of you there.
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$15 a pound on Amazon...
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I believe have a problem with the cuboid bone in my foot, and I've been waiting over a year for a podiatrist. I wonder if I can see if there's a crack in it myself... It's close enough to the surface that it should be visible if that really works? I wonder how no one who works with the stuff has ever noticed this before
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eating Doritos with dorito dust all over fingers
Well….uh, ok?
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It also means "we don't know (yet)" so there is a chance it's not that toxic.
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“massaging tartrazine solution into hairless mouse skin over the course of a few minutes or using microneedling achieves “complete optical transparency in the red region of the visible spectrum”
I know it didn’t happen this way but I like to believe it was someone having their unwashed dorito fingers after lunch, decided to massage a mouse for several minutes, and figuring this out
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No that's probably exactly what happened. Most discoveries happen serendipitously.
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Sounds like a masturbation injury if I've ever heard of one, the mouse is clearly a cover
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A scientist frantically looking for something to rub dorito dust on, before everyone else get into the lab the next morning.
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Smoke some, eat snacks and try using real mouse with your laptop.
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How the fuck can anyone say science sucks
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Because doing science sometimes DOES suck. I bang my head on my desk doing science sometimes, and I dislike it.
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Doritos stock about to explode
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All I read was, Eat more Doritos to become invisible...
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wait till you find out what redbull offers
the ultimate question: Flight or Invisibility ?
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Why not both?
I'll just pound redbulls and doritos until I become a ghost. Shouldn't take long, I'd expect.
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Halloween is going to be lit this year bitches. Release the ghost mice!!!
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Remember where you are so you can tell your kids what you were doing before the “xtreme flavor blasted mousepocalypse”.
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I now suddenly want an idocracy game where you stop the xtreme flavor blasted mousepocalypse from happening
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But the real question is... How do they taste?
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Crispy.
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350° for 35 minutes?
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The mice or the domino's?
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That doesn't sound like something we should be putting in our bodies then does it?
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Yellow 5 is super common (in the US) for things that go inside our bodies. Doritos, Mt Dew, probably Red Bull. When we were kids there was a rumor that it would shrink your dick haha.
Read the ingredients on stuff the next few days and take note of how often you see it. It's probably why they chose it as one of the test substances. It's relatively safe to eat.
What is unknown is how dangerous it is to absorb large amounts into someone's skin.
It's like the illegal weed vape pen issue years ago. People would cut the product with vitamin e to thicken it and also make more money. Vitamin E is safe for human consumption. Turns out its vapor is terrible for lungs. It's quite unsafe for that kind of consumption.
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Highly recommend anyone reading check out an app called Yuka. You scan barcodes and it'll give you a score of the ingredients and why things are rated the way they are. Not always 100%, but better than trying to just figure out if carboxymethylcellulose is safe, (it is) let alone pronouncable.
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us food safety gore
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So like, this is a positive right
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So, I skimmed the article and may have missed it. Why is this anything more that tinkering with and (maybe torturing) mice? What's the actual scientific value here? (Assuming invisibility potion wasn't an actual goal)
Perhaps medical dyes for imaging?
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They applied a yellow, food-safe dye to the skin of the mice and found it caused light to refract in such a way that their skin became significantly more transparent. An article I read (I did not read this one) listed some potential uses like making veins visible for blood draws and more precise tattoo removal. The dye washed off afterwards.
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What's the actual scientific value here?
Transparent mice with multiple butts
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What do you mean? To make people invisible bro.
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Finally!
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