BEWARE: Carbon Nano Dots are Lurking in Caramel and other commonly used products at your Grocery Store!

Less is more/

Fasting
Go old school

I am following these precautions

Less is more/

Fasting
Go old school

I am following these precautions

Who needs graphine when you got Carbon Nano Dots?

Imagine the potential...

Bill Gates must be drooling over this one...

I'm surprised Bill Gates isn't pushing it.

they're already injecting us with graphene oxides.

it's too bad cuz I like caramel and jaggery.

In summary, our current work revealed the presence of CNPs in carbohydrate based regular food caramels from bread, jaggery, corn flakes and biscuit. The excitation wavelength dependent emission characteristic of the CNPs from food caramels were similar to those generated from sugar; however, the particle sizes varied indicating temperature - dependent formation of CNPs of different sizes. NMR spectroscopy revealed that the CNPs were coated with carbohydrate units. It is interesting to note that for centuries these caramels containing CNPs have been consumed by human beings with no known toxicity and thus it can be considered to have no or minimum risk on human health and may be used as a safe nanomaterial. Our finding of the presence of fluorescent CNPs in food caramels may also help their use in tracking and imaging conjugated biomolecules and drugs in vivo, without being imperilled.