How to Choose Edible Glitter for Cocktails: Five Criteria

How do you choose edible glitter for cocktails? 5 checks beat any brand list — and you can run them in any store aisle. Skip the rankings and run 5 checks on any jar: flakes, not fine dust — 50-500 microns is what stays visible in a drink; the word edible printed plainly, because non-toxic is not the same thing; a full ingredient list you can read before buying; price per drink, never per jar — about $0.15 at 0.1 grams per serving; and one jar that works on drinks and desserts both. Pass all 5, buy with confidence. In this episode: the store-aisle shortcut for judging flake size without ever measuring a micron; the category's most telling number — in review data, over 66.6% of ingredient complaints are about information that's simply missing, and how to use that as your filter; the division that turns a 15-dollar sticker into about 15 cents a glass; and the round Dana wins outright — why per-serving math is only honest at your real usage, plus the two-job jar that fixes it. Who should skip it: if your drinks are opaque (cola, creamy coffee cocktails, stouts), the sparkle is invisible — spend nothing; if you need shimmer for exactly one party, split a jar with a friend instead of buying your own; and if nobody's eating or drinking what you're decorating, decoration-only glitter is cheaper and made for that — it just never goes near food. The jar from the episode: MONÉGASQUE Iconic Gold 10g drink glitter on Amazon (check the listing for current pricing) — flake-style, built for the glass, with the full ingredient list on the label. Produced with AI-crafted hosts. Full transcript on the episode page. New questions answered every week at The Monégasque Table.