dimethylpolysiloxane

plural dimethylpolysiloxanes

1. countableuncountablePolydimethylsiloxane.

   With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane.

   2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “Happy-Meal Me”, in New York Times

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   The complaint says that a McDonald's nutritional brochure described the fish in its Filet-O-Fish as being "100% cod with a pinch of salt to taste after cooking". But a list of ingredients from by^([sic]) the company includes "modified corn starch, dextrose, cellulose gum, citric acid and an anti-foaming agent called dimethylpolysiloxane".

   2003 February 21, David Teather, “‘McFrankenstein’ returns to haunt fast food chain in new court action”, in The Guardian, →ISSN