edible silver?
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I have an Indian friend who brought some cultural deserts into the office and they are sprinkled with silver foil. at first i thought it is thse coating to be removed before eating but they told me it is not but similar to the icing sugar they use in cakes . But they dont know what its called but commonly used in indian deserts. It's like eating aluminum foil or something.
what is this called?
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quite sometime back, candy shops were selling something like small metal pallets candy... Also silver in colouring... Maybe they are similiar?
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this thing almost has some metallic taste
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i watch a show b4 and the cook make a delicious dish and sprinkle some gold powder on it...
until now i dunno whether edible anot -
Originally posted by ItchyArmpit:
i watch a show b4 and the cook make a delicious dish and sprinkle some gold powder on it...
until now i dunno whether edible anotgold foil are used to make some chocolates... They are edible... but wat are they made of?
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It's a non toxic form of silver/gold lah...See this from wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_leaf
but personally i would not consume it...cos dunno if whould be good for body or not...
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Originally posted by ☃®:
I have an Indian friend who brought some cultural deserts into the office and they are sprinkled with silver foil. at first i thought it is thse coating to be removed before eating but they told me it is not but similar to the icing sugar they use in cakes . But they dont know what its called but commonly used in indian deserts. It's like eating aluminum foil or something.
what is this called?
It is not sugar, Vark, sometimes referred to as Silver leaf. it is edible but mostly tasteless ingredient used to garnish Indian Confectionary. The sugary taste comes from the actual confectionary, not the vark. Pretty common in almost all Indian esrts, sweets.
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not harmful to eat it
at most pass out from u after the silver/gold travel thru ur stomach, intestines -
sometimes this tasteless vark is mixed with icing sugar.
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hmmm... then this vark isnt expensive????
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
hmmm... then this vark isnt expensive????
I dont know r how much it cost. Bu ti bet u can get it @ serangoon
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What does your Indian friend says? Surely you have asked him.
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i saw some mooncakes also got it.. they called it edible gold flakes.. edible but too much is bad for the body
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Originally posted by 105090:
i saw some mooncakes also got it.. they called it edible gold flakes.. edible but too much is bad for the body
is it really made of Gold?
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does it have a taste effect?
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u is n00b owat.
me like the triangular milky milky one.
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
u is n00b owat.
me like the triangular milky milky one.
that one can buy in serangoon.
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Originally posted by ☃®:
does it have a taste effect?
it doesn't it's there for looks and to up the expensive "feel"
gold is ok to eat in very small amounts becuse it's inert but there really isn't much point in doing so.