PolitiFact - No, there isn’t antifreeze in your Pop-Tarts, ice cream or cake mix

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Some food and drink products contain trace amounts of propylene glycol, a food additive that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says is safe in small quantities. But that does not mean they contain antifreeze.

called out Pop-Tarts, Blue Bunny and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream, Betty Crocker and Duncan Hines cake mixes, Dunkin’ flavored iced teas and Fireball whisky, claiming these products"have antifreeze in them."

The video said these food and drink products contain propylene glycol, which is also the"active ingredient in engine coolants, various paints and varnishes and enamels." "But according to the , as long as you don’t eat too much of it, it’s OK," the person in the video said."My question is if you eat a lot of food that has it and you don’t know that it’s in it, and you just keep eating it, it can add up pretty quickly, don’t you think?"

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