Any One Else Eat Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth?

[Jstpssng]

The main ingredient is silica, not calcium.

 

[ruffdog]

The main ingredient is silica, not calcium.

Made from fossilized algae that is high in silica. Not good to breathe but have not read much on the stuff.

 

[goeduck]

Once a day one heaping tablespoon about 2 hours after breakfast in water.

6 or 7 years of it should tell if there is a problem eating it, apparently there is not. What led you to adding it to your diet?
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[RickB]

Made from fossilized algae that is high in silica. Not good to breathe but have not read much on the stuff.

I did a LITTLE looking around on the topic. Food grade DE is used as a filter media for foodstuffs. GRAS (generally regarded as safe) to ingest but I did not see any claimed benefits. I am passing for now. As stated, not good to breathe.

 

[Xfaxman]

6 or 7 years of it should tell if there is a problem eating it, apparently there is not. What led you to adding it to your diet?
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A friend gave us some for the horses, so I did some searching to find out about it. Did a search for "food grade DE forums " and when I read the benefits people got from eating it, I did too.

 

[goeduck]

Interesting reading

 

[Doofy]

I just use it to kill ants.

 

[Diggin It]

As stated, not good to breathe.

Neither is water.

 

[EddieWalker]

We use it in our chicken coops. My wife spreads it in the nesting boxes and all over the floor of the coops. It's probably not food grade, but I've never looked at the box to see what it says. She swears by it for the chickens, but I've never heard any benefits to people before. She is the smart one, so I'll mention it to her and see what she says.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

From what I have read, DE is not made from calcium.

Have you eaten it? I have never felt any irritation from food grade DE.

DE is composed mainly of Silica, with some Al and traces of Calcium.

What Are the Benefits of Diatomaceous Earth?