How Cheetos Are Made

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6. Cheetos. Artificially colored, artificially flavored................

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I haven't had the guts to try them but others apparently have.....
Corn Starch Packing Peanuts Edible?

I know folks who have eaten a large number of them with no apparent
ill effect. I thought they were made from wheat starch, though. I have
noticed small particles of metal in some of them, but then again
Cheerios has small particles of metal in it (try blenderizing them in
water and then stirring with a magnet), so it can't be too bad. We got
some one time that were green; I would advise against eating those,
even though the dye is probably harmless food dye.

guess, if they aren't edible, several members of our lab should have
dropped dead by now.

Not that they taste too good.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.chem/ClWbDBcqOnM

No problem dude, just toss in some MSG and a bunch of that orange powered cheese like stuff.