Fireball is a ragingly popular sickly sweet elixir that's taken America by storm. Fireball is also made with propylene glycol a common ingredient in some antifreezes. That's an unsettling fact so unsettling that Norway Sweden and Finland just recalled the booze. But it's not necessarily as unsettling as it sounds.
Propylene glycol is actually a common ingredient in a lot of things everything from boring old plastics to exciting new e cigarettes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also deemed the chemical as generally recognized as safe. In part for its ability to lower the freezing point of water it's used as an additive in a number of foods including ice cream. For that same reason it's also a key ingredient in certain types of antifreeze namely environmentally friendly antifreeze. If you ever see antifreeze that's pink instead of Slimer green that's probably because it contains propylene glycol and is relatively nontoxic.
Relatively nontoxic is an important term here. Propylene glycol is pretty safe to consumer but it's not entirely safe. In large quantities it is most certainly toxic. (Then again so is alcohol another key ingredient in Fireball.) Children who consume a big batch of propylene glycol are probably going to get poisoned. Then again children who drink a big bottle of alcohol are probably going to get poisoned too.
So does this mean you should stop drinking Fireball Well that depends on how much you love the stuff. You're most certainly not sipping a nice all natural single malt scotch. You're taking shots of a chemical stuffed slurry of cinnamon flavoring and whiskey like liquid.
Scandanavia's evidently not big on selling chemical filled stuff. But this is the U.S. of A. Fireball represents what we do best add gross chemicals to food and produce very effective marketing campaigns. yle via Jalopnik
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