Do Breast Implants and Chicken Nuggets Share Ingredients?

Silicone is in virtually every product you use on a daily basis.  It is what makes expensive facial creams feel nice, deodorants spread nicely and hair products produce smooth effects.  It is in every makeup product as well.  It is pretty much ubiquitous you can find it in everything!  The molecule you are referring to is just one of the many  that exist in breast implants and many consumer products.

 

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Rian A. Maercks M.D.

Of the over forty ingredients that are in a Chicken McNugget, one of those is an oil derived from silicone known as polydimethylsiloxane. It is there to act as an antifoaming agent to keep the fryers from boiling over in the cooking process. It is derived from the identical base element silicon that also comprises a gel breast implant. While there are similar in this elemental composition, they are manufactured differently so one is an oil and the other is a more linked cohensive gel. While one helps cooking a breast, the other is responsible for helping make a breast. While this 'discovery' is interesting and perhaps even humorous, it does illustrate that silicone is a ubiquitous material and is more a part of our everyday life than we realize.