What is the whitest thing in the world?

Titanium dioxide(TiO2)

How white is titanium dioxide? To be the best in the world?

With a simple example, you can guess how white titanium dioxide is.

1 gram of titanium dioxide can paint an area of 450+ square centimeters white. Titanium dioxide is 5 times whiter than our commonly used white pigment, lithopone. Therefore, titanium dioxide is the best raw material for white paint.

Titanium dioxide is also divided into food grade and chemical grade.

What are the differences?

Just as its name implies, food grade titanium dioxide can be directly added to the food. When titanium dioxide used in the field of food, and the most common is food additive. Titanium dioxide is the only white pigment in food additives, which has been approved by the United States, the European Union, Japan, China and other countries for food use.

Food grade titanium dioxide is often used in candy, beverage, jelly and other products, and the dosage is generally no more than 1%.