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0 pointsdesdenova1y ago0 comments

> My best guess is that we'll find out that a few food additives that became popular 50 years ago upset the intestinal microbiome in a way that promotes obesity.

People can get drunk enough to fail a breath test, just from eating industrialized bread.

There's so much chemical crap added to industrialized food we're not even aware of, unless we send each item to a lab for testing before we eat.

But yeah, people sure must be getting fat because the McDonald's cashier gave them a receipt made of bad paper...

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kragen1y ago

> People can get drunk enough to fail a breath test, just from eating industrialized bread.

I don't think this is unique to industrialized bread; in cases like this, what the yeast are fermenting is starch in the bread, which has been the main component of bread as long as there has been bread. They aren't fermenting the xanthan gum, guar gum, calcium propionate, titanium dioxide, etc. In fact, if anything, I'd think the anti-fungal preservatives like propionate would tend to make industrialized bread harder for yeast to ferment.

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