Carrageenan—Is This Additive Safe?

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Have you checked the ingredient list on your soymilk, pudding, toothpaste, or chocolate? You may find “carrageenan,” a food additive recently tied with potential stomach tumors.  Look on the back of your ice cream, pudding, soymilk, salad dressing, infant formula, beer, or even toothpaste, and you may see the ingredient “carrageenan” listed there. A common additive derived from seaweed, it’s long been considered to be safe, but some recent studies have raised concerns that it may cause gastrointestinal ulcerations and tumors. 

What’s the bottom line on this ingredient? Should you avoid it?

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