On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:26:28 -0400 in rec.food.cooking, "J. Clarke"
> wrote,
>It's just refined titanium ore, in other words clean dirt. The stuff
>when ground up into a fine dust is very, very, very white.

The first foodstuff I ever saw it in was quarts of non-fat non-dairy
"coffee whitener" cream substitute. Carnation is one brand.