Well, I was reading the back of a powerade bottle and noticed that one of the ingredients listed was "Acacia", which made me wonder...after doing some research, I came to find that indeed soft drinks and the like use an ingredient called 'gum arabic' which is extracted from the Acacia senegal tree.

Interestingly enough, I also found out that several parts of this plant contain DMT and other tryptamines, granted they are in very small amounts.

This makes me wonder though if indeed there is some DMT that makes it into many of the products we drink every day. For instance root beer I believe uses gum arabic....

Obviously there wouldn't be nearly enough to 'extract' or anything like that, but do you guys think that perhaps indeed there is a small amount of DMT in our drinks/foods that just happened to slip under the radar? Hell, they found cocaine in red bull - why not right?

Idk tell me what you guys think.

Sure, theres a little dmt in just about everything apparently. Its a common constituent of many metabolic pathways that plants, animals, and fungi need to survive. I wouldnt be suprised if it can be found in many foods/beverages.

Just found out about Gum Arabic too, but sad to hear its not exactly 'viable'

peace

Even if it were making its way into your root beer, it wouldn't be active the oral route anyway (unless someone is on an MAOI though the amount of DMT in the drink would have to be negligible anyway).

Unfortunately there is only data about acacia senegal leaves contaning very little DMT. Could not find any data about gum arrabic resin or other parts of tree alkaloid content. Benny Shannon suggested that Moses might have used this gum arrabic for ayahuasca analogue.