The $666 gold-wrapped Douche Burger: Is it safe to eat gold?
The $666 Burger Contains Six Sheets of Gold Leaf. Is That Safe?
The $666 &Douche Burger& with gold flakes.
Photo by Mackenzie Keegan.
A New York City food truck is selling a $666 hamburger dubbed the &,& which contains lobster, caviar, truffles, and a beef patty wrapped in six sheets of gold leaf. How much gold leaf can you safely consume?
Theoretically, you could eat your fill of 24-karat gold without falling ill. Pure gold is chemically inert and passes through the human digestive system without being absorbed into the body. Since 24-karat gold is very soft and fragile, most edible gold&whether leaf, flakes, or dust&also contains a little bit of silver, which is also inert. Non-edible gold leaf, which is used for gilding, sometimes contains copper, which can be toxic in high doses. Consuming impure gold preparations such as
can lead to a change in skin pigmentation and other adverse health effects. &Eating too much pure gold might give you a stomachache, just like eating too much of anything else might, but it won&t have any more dire effects unless you&re among the minority of people who are .
The FDA hasn&t evaluated edible gold leaf for safety, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&s
doesn&t consider gold a toxic substance. Gold is an approved food additive in the European Union, and an independent European food-safety certification agency, TU?V Rheinland, has deemed 23-karat gold leaf safe for consumption. Gold and silver leaf are also certified kosher.
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Europeans have been adding gold leaf to food and liquor (like ) since the Renaissance, and gold leaf can also be found adorning certain Japanese candies and South Asian pastries. Homeopaths have prescribed gold as a treatment for heart disease, arthritis, depression, and other ailments for hundreds of years, but gold&s usefulness as a medicine has not been demonstrated.
Edible gold leaf has no taste, texture, calories, or expiration date. It can cost $120 to $160 per gram. A gram of edible gold would add a dash of glitter to 150 to 200 champagne flutes, or wrap about 4 Douche Burgers.
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人教版英语七年级上册 2014新版 P33 3CAsk your classmates about the food in the chart.求把这张表转换成一段报告,如：Jack likes burger but.求例子（可以把名字代入的）好的话增加悬赏
人教版英语七年级上册 2014新版 P33 3CAsk your classmates about the food in the chart.求把这张表转换成一段报告,如：Jack likes burger but.求例子（可以把名字代入的）好的话增加悬赏
2014新版 P33"Nobody Knows" lyrics
SHAYNE WARD LYRICS
"Nobody Knows"
I pretend that I'm glad you went away
These four walls closing more every day
I'm dying inside
And nobody knows it but me
Like a clown I put on a show
The pain is real even if nobody knows
I'm crying inside
And nobody knows it but me
Why didn't I say the things I needed to say
How could I let my angel get away
Now my world is just a-tumblin' down
I could see it so clearly but you're nowhere around
The nights are lonely the days are so sad and
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And I'm missing you
And nobody knows it but me
I carry a smile when I'm broken in two
I'm nobody without someone like you
I'm trembling inside
And nobody knows it but me (yeah)
I lay awake, it's a quarter past three
I'm screaming at night if I thought you'd hear me
Yeah, my heart is calling you
And nobody knows it but me
How blue could I get?
You could ask my heart
But like a jigsaw puzzle it's been torn all apart
A million words couldn't say just how I feel
A million years from now you know I'll be loving you still
The nights are lonely the days are so sad and
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And I'm missing you
And nobody knows it but me
Oooo oohhhhh yeah
Tomorrow morning, I'm a hit a dusty road
Gonna find you wherever, wherever you might go
And I'm gonna unload my heart and hope you come back to me
I said when the nights are lonely
The nights are lonely the days are so sad and
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And I'm missing you
And nobody knows it but me
The nights are lonely the days are so sad and
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And I'm missing you
And nobody knows it but me
The nights are lonely the days are so sad and
I just keep thinking about the love that we had
And I'm missing you
And nobody knows it but me
for these lyrics.
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