: what happens when you eat the silica gel packets?
In: Biology
The pellets will absorb moisture quite easily and swell up. This may cause some irritation in your digestion system but most of the time it will just pass harmlessly through. It can however cause constipation in small children. The label “do not eat” is not because it is poisonous but rather because it is not intended as food. The small packets may to some people look a bit like candy. But they are not.
There is however silica gel which is laced with poison. Some contain a material which changes color depending on its humidity and this is poisonous. But the white silica gel is safe to eat, but not wise.
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