Silica Gel in Jelly Beans?!

Silica Gel in Jelly Beans?

I have been eating from a bottle of jelly beans for about a week. Today when I shook the bottle I found a pack of Silica Gel in the bottom.
Is it still ok to eat them?

Your Jelly Beans should be safe. But if you are unsure, just throw them out, it isn't worth the risk. Washing them would just make them sticky and yucky.

Silica gel is a granular, porous form of silica made synthetically from sodium silicate. Despite the name, silica gel is a solid.

Silica gel is most commonly encountered in everyday life as beads packed in a semi-permeable plastic. In this form, it is used as a desiccant to control local humidity in order to avoid spoilage of some goods. Because of poisonous dopants (see below) and their very high absorption of moisture, silica gel packets usually bear warnings for the user not to eat the contents, but to throw them away instead. If consumed, the pure silica gel is unlikely to cause acute or chronic illness, but would be problematic nonetheless. However, some packaged desiccants may include fungicide and/or pesticide poisons. It is not known whether these would be labelled specifically. Food-grade desiccant should not include any poisons which would cause long-term harm to humans if consumed in the quantities normally included with the items of food.

Silica Gel is used in toothpaste and other household products.