You and your big horses**t mouth, #8631

@BigBuggyBastage  
How about we just agree to not consume things that can make us sick, be it inedible products, foreign bodies, chemicals, TikTok, and everything inbetween.

Like almost everything, it’s the dose that makes the poison.
 
 
That said, I wouldn’t purposely expose myself to several classes of chemicals, just to prove the point, e.g. PCBs, PBBs, dimethylmercury, nickel tetracarbonyl, etc.

@Astrohippus23  
Hmmm. Yeah, I guess it makes sense that modern toothpaste is probably not very dangerous.
 
Still not gonna be fun, but it probably won’t do much real harm.

@Astrohippus23  
Hmm. The article linked talks about fluoride, but there are other things in toothpaste. There is a detergent, not too dissimilar from what we use to wash clothing or dishes. Its hideous flavor is disguised by the only chemical capable of masking it, oil of peppermint. Consuming detergent can irritate the digestive tract badly and result in diarrhea.
 
There’s also a very mild abrasive, powdered chalk. The carbonates in the powdered chalk will react with stomach acids to produce carbon dioxide gas, maybe in sufficient quantity to cause a tummyache before you could eat enough toothpaste for the other things to happen. Maybe. Not trying to create the next Tide Pod Challenge here.

@wdeleon  
You would have to swallow an obscene amount of the stuff for it to actually be toxic.

Ketchup. Its a vegetable AND a fruit!

You… you know you can’t eat toothpaste, right? Like, it’s literally poisonous…

@Astrohippus23  
This made me laugh, thanks

This happens when you’re not clear enough :3

Health shake. If you drink it and live, you must’ve been pretty healthy.