Crude oil-derived substances in the candy have been linked to health problems—and the regulations that have allowed their use in the US are now in Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s crosshairs.
It didn’t seem necessary to say unhealthy things made from crude oil. This is an area that I’m not super knowledgeable, so I went looking. It turns out that the jury is out on whether any of the petroleum-based additives are safe. Even the ubiquitous propylene glycol is getting more scrutiny now, though partly because it’s in so many things that people are commonly ingesting more than the levels generally regarded as safe.
Your comment reads as if you think things made from ‘crude oil’ is ‘unhealthy’.
It didn’t seem necessary to say unhealthy things made from crude oil. This is an area that I’m not super knowledgeable, so I went looking. It turns out that the jury is out on whether any of the petroleum-based additives are safe. Even the ubiquitous propylene glycol is getting more scrutiny now, though partly because it’s in so many things that people are commonly ingesting more than the levels generally regarded as safe.