Subway Bread Yoga Mat Snopes

Earlier this month vani hari of food babe called out subway for using azodicarbonamide ada a chemical found in yoga mats shoe soles and synthetic leather.

Subway bread yoga mat snopes.

Subway the popular sandwich chain has announced the ingredient dubbed the yoga mat chemical will be entirely phased out of its bread by this week. Almost 500 foods contain the yoga mat compound. One week left to eat a subway yoga mat sandwich subway announced a chemical in its sandwich bread that ignited a social media firestorm will be completely removed from its stores by next week. Subway s bread isn t really bread according to new.

The disclosure comes as subway has suffered from an onslaught of bad publicity since. Azodicarbonamide is a chemical made famous in the united states by van hari aka the food babe as the chemical in yoga mats as well as rubber shoes. In fact azodicarbonamide is found in about 500 different packaged foods including breads stuffings croutons and. Subway says an ingredient dubbed the yoga mat chemical will be entirely phased out of its bread by next week.

While it has been linked. The salt a report finds that azodicarbonamide wasn t just in subway s bread. This article has been updated to reflect that and provide more scientific context on the issue. Azodicarbonamide yoga mats subway mcribbs.

Subway wasn t the only chain to use the yoga mat chemical in its bread many chains have now bid goodbye to azodicarbonamide by virginia chamlee aug 8 2016 4 00pm edt. It is used as a foaming agent to help in making certain kinds of plastics. It s in hundreds of foods. Subway sandwich bread isn t the only food made with the yoga mat chemical.

The claims by vani hari which were originally detailed in the article below about azodicarbonamide were unscientific in nature.