NEW RESEARCH - Food Additive Cellulose Gum/Dietary Fiber

New research on the food additive 'carboxymethylcellulose' aka CMC or cellulose gum. Check out what the new research has to say on whether or not this food additive is safe to consume.

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[PlasmaSnake]

Your eyes look very pretty in that light

[SeventiesVet]

Good information. We should all be reading the ingredients list of what we're consuming. And much of it, such as this, is not very healthy.

[camels]

CMC upsets my stomach, can't be good for us. I ordered some Tapioca pearls and it had CMC in it, was having the runs right after.

[harjitsingh-jnvu]

Thank for passing knowledge, can u also please provide link of new research which u r referring to.

[neousagi]

This adds to the conundrum around dietary fiber, whose origins as a beneficial dietary element in preventing colon cancer are found in a flawed study of people in Africa. Their lower colon cancer risk with higher dietary fiber was ultimately found to really be due to the prevention of infection by a parasite associated with colon cancer. So dietary fiber really has no anti-colon cancer benefit to people outside of continental Africa where this parasite exclusively resides.

But I feel the need to say that your advice to "avoid anything with a potential side effect" is excessive. In reality no thing we consume has no adverse effects. Table salt, sugar and vegetable oils are major contributors to the principal causes of death but staples in the kitchen. Its about relative risk and things we can do to mitigate risk. Risk without mitigation is pretty unacceptable but measured risk or risk that can be counteracted is a different matter. In this case, it may be ever more reason to take probiotics to guard our gut flora.

[RGBrob]

Is modified cellulose the same as cellulose gum?

[pwx]

Is that safe, it's on bottles of vitamins something M Cellulose gum

[notoftheworld]

Is this dependent upon how much is consumed? Obviously poison is poison. However, people will indulge at least from time to time in things that are not good for them.
Is it best to avoid completely because we dont know at what point it becomes dangerous?

[JaboodyEnthusiast]

Those eyes 👀 burning holes in souls out here

[nktoxpharmo]

she wont, because she is referring studies done in 9 subjects and 20 subject!!!