A COMMON COATING ON CANDIES AND PILLS------- IS MADE FROM THE BODILY EXCRETIONS OF AN ASIAN BEETLE
Confectioner's gaze, also called pharmaceutical glaze,resinous gaze, pure food glaze and natural gaze, is a common ingredient in candies and pills.
By any name, its the same ingredient as SHELLAC, the chemical that they sell in hardware stores and that is used for sealing and varnishing wood floors!!!!OMG!!!!!!DANGER!!...and we are eating this!!!
SHELLAC is actually a chemical secreted by female lac bugs(Laccifer lacca) , a type of "scale insect", in order to form sheltering tunnels as they travel along the outside of trees. it is extracted for industrial use by scraping bark, bugs and tunnels off of trees in Asian forests and into the canvas tubes. The tubes are then heated to over a flame until the shellac melts and seeps out of the canvas, after which it is dried into flakes for sale.Before use in food or as varnish, the shellac must be re-dissolved in denatured alcohol.
Instead of shellac ,some food producers even use acorn protein called zein. but usage of plant product like zein is not much harmful..but what about SHELLAC......do please kindly read the ingredients before you eat something.
beautiful.......but????????
laccifer lacca....
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That's the wrong insect.
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