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Diglycerides Of Fatty Acids
Industrial fatty-acid emulsifier shown to disrupt gut mucus barrier and microbiome in mouse models. Ubiquitous in baked goods and chocolate.
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Milk Chocolate Fitness
Is Nestlé Milk Chocolate Fitness low tox? Our scanner flagged 1 ingredient (1 in the caution tier) on its published label, screened against our 237 source-cited chemical rules.
1 caution
1 ingredient flagged
What we flagged
Full ingredients (from label)
cereals 496% ( whole wheat for 26,7%, rice, wheat flour complete with 3,9%, corn flour, rice flour)milk chocolate 16% (sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, milk fat anhydrous, emulsifiers (soy lecithin , polyriclinoléate polyricinoleate), flavour)glucose syrupsugarextract of malted barleyinvert sugar syruphumectant (glycerol)palm oilmolassessaltcocoa powderemulsifier (sunflower lecithin, mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids)flavouringssunflower oilcorrector of acidity (sodium phosphates)lean cocoa powderdextrosevitamins and minerals (niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, vitamin b6, folic acid, calcium carbonate, iron
How this analysis is generated
Each ingredient on this product's published label is matched against our 237 source-cited chemical rules, each documenting a concern from peer-reviewed research and regulatory sources. Severity tiers:
- Avoid (red) — banned or restricted in the EU, UK or Canada but still legal in the US, IARC-listed, or strong contact-allergen evidence.
- Caution (amber) — regulatory caution, contamination risk, or condition-specific irritant.
- Mild (green) — low concern but commonly avoided in low-tox formulations.
Each flag links to its primary chemical-level source, and each condition pill links to a PubMed-indexed paper that discusses the chemical class in the context of that condition. Every citation is a real peer-reviewed paper — we don't link to Wikipedia or PubMed search pages. Some pairs use a topically-broad paper (e.g. a fragrance-allergen patch-test review) rather than a single-pair study where the literature is thin. The full evidence chain (chemical → mechanism → condition → paper) is one click away.
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