Editing Gold (section)

=== Cuisine ===
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* Gold can be used in food and has the [[E number]] 175.<ref name="FSA-2007">{{Cite news |url=http://www.food.gov.uk/safereating/chemsafe/additivesbranch/enumberlist |title=Current EU approved additives and their E Numbers |date=27 July 2007 |publisher=Food Standards Agency, UK}}</ref> In 2016, the [[European Food Safety Authority]] published an opinion on the re-evaluation of gold as a food additive. Concerns included the possible presence of minute amounts of gold [[nanoparticle]]s in the food additive, and that gold nanoparticles have been shown to be [[genotoxic]] in mammalian cells [[in vitro]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Scientific Opinion on the re-evaluation of gold (E 175) as a food additive |journal=EFSA Journal |volume=14 |issue=1 |year=2016 |issn=1831-4732 |doi=10.2903/j.efsa.2016.4362 |page=4362|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[Gold leaf]], flake or dust is used on and in some gourmet foods, notably sweets and drinks as decorative ingredient.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Food Dictionary: Varak |publisher=Barron's Educational Services, Inc. |date=1995 |url=http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/entry?id=5061 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060523014547/http://www.epicurious.com/cooking/how_to/food_dictionary/entry?id=5061 |archive-date=23 May 2006 |access-date=27 May 2007}}</ref> Gold flake was used by the nobility in [[medieval Europe]] as a decoration in food and drinks,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OMLuBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT94 |title=Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast |last1=Kerner |first1=Susanne |last2=Chou |first2=Cynthia |last3=Warmind |first3=Morten |page=94 |date=2015 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-85785-719-4}}</ref>
* Danziger Goldwasser (German: Gold water of Danzig) or [[Goldwasser]] ({{langx|en|Goldwater}}) is a traditional German herbal [[liqueur]]<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tsUNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA101 |title=Deutschland nebst Theilen der angrenzenden Länder |chapter=Danzig |first=Karl |last=Baedeker |date=1865 |publisher=Karl Baedeker |language=de}}</ref> produced in what is today [[Gdańsk]], [[Poland]], and [[Schwabach]], Germany, and contains flakes of gold leaf. There are also some expensive (c. $1000) cocktails which contain flakes of gold leaf. However, since metallic gold is inert to all body chemistry, it has no taste, it provides no nutrition, and it leaves the body unaltered.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml |title=The Many Uses of Gold |access-date=6 June 2009 |author=King, Hobart M. |publisher=geology.com}}</ref>
* [[Vark]] is a [[Metal leaf|foil]] composed of a pure metal that is sometimes gold,<ref>[http://www.delafee.com/Edible+Gold+Creations_Information+on+edible+gold/ Gold in Gastronomy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002554/http://www.delafee.com/Edible+Gold+Creations_Information+on+edible+gold/ |date=4 March 2016 }}. deLafee, Switzerland (2008)</ref> and is used for [[Garnish (food)|garnishing]] sweets in South Asian cuisine.