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The Potentially Dangerous Ingredient In Your Almond Milk
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So What’s the Big Deal? Why Should I Care?
Carrageenan has become a controversial substance due to reports of itsinflammatory and carcinogenic (cancer-causing) properties. When ingested, carrageenan has been shown to induce inflammation in the digestive tracts of laboratory animals. Studies have also linked it to intestinal lesions, ulcers, and colon cancer. It has even been shown to contribute to diabetes. In a study involving mice, the test animals developed “profound glucose intolerances and impaired insulin action” when exposed to low concentrations of the compound over a course of only 18 days.
It’s not exactly like this is newly discovered knowledge either. As early as the 1960s researchers were actually using carrageenan to intentionally induce inflammation in order to test the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory drugs.
Stats like these are certainly enough to get people up in arms. Some people who were drinking almond milk for itssuperior health benefits were understandably alarmed to discover that they had been unwittingly consuming this potentially dangerous substance.
Seems like solving this problem should be pretty straightforward. The FDA, and their counterpart agencies around the world, should enact a ban and that’s the end of it, right?
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Joe M
Jun 27, 2016 at 12:57 pm
So if Carrageenan comes from seaweed, does that make consuming seaweed bad for your health?