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two things that dissolve in water

06/14/2009 8:54 PM

Two questions what are Listerine strip made out of, the material that dissolves instantly in water - http://tinyurl.com/mpqng2 I originally thought it was rice paper based but now I don't think it is.

Also what are those foam packaging bubbles made out of that dissolve really easily. It's a specific kind that dissolves in water. What kind is it?

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06/15/2009 7:32 AM

Can't help you with the Listerine, but the peanuts I think you mean, are made of potato starch.

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06/16/2009 1:01 PM

I ordered something from some eco-friendly company one time that used those water-soluble packing peanuts, and the guy must have told me you could eat them, because I did. It was really stupid, in retrospect, because... who knows where those things have been and how many rats peed on them. But I was sort of enjoying eating them, even though they had no flavor to speak of. I won't be doing that again, because I wound up with one of the worse cases of the runs in recent memory.

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06/15/2009 8:35 AM

My wife sometimes ordered from a beauty supply company that would use peanuts that you would dump into your bath water and it would dissolve into bath oil and bubbles. Pretty neat idea! check wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packing_peanuts

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06/15/2009 8:44 AM

Smart marketing!

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06/16/2009 8:16 AM

The last time I looked at the ingredient list 'Listerine strips' were using a material called 'Pullulan', a microbe generated polysaccharide biopolymer as the film former. But, perhaps the recipe has changed since then.

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06/16/2009 11:51 AM

Our packing peanuts are made from cornstarch.

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06/16/2009 1:03 PM

Yup, the ones I ate reminded me more of corn that potatoes.

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06/17/2009 12:53 AM

One could say that you were corn holed and then got the runs.

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