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- Food additive in coffee creamer, other processed foods might be causing stomach distress
When scanning food labels, you may notice the ingredient carrageenan listed on some products. Made from a type of red seaweed, carrageenan has no nutritional value, meaning that it does not contribute any calories or other nutrients to food.
Aug. 5, 2013 - Los Angeles Daily News
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- Michael Pollan in Newsday
(Pollan writes in "In Defense of Food": "Fats in things like sour cream and yogurt could now be replaced with hydrogenated oils or guar gum or carrageenan. ...... As long as the new fake foods were engineered to be nutritionally equivalent to...