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i already don't buy meat and I'm shit scared of this allergy mainly because carageenan is a fantastic sustainable thickener and gelatin alternative
Pretty sure I'm allergic to carageenan. It's in chocolate milk and whenever I drink that it becomes difficult for me to breath
barring an allergy to dairy, cocoa solids, or cacao butter, that's definitely a likely culprit
it's probably not hard to find chocolate syrup without carageenan (Hershey's doesn't have it for example) but I'm not surprised commercial premixed chocolate milk has it as a stabilizer, since chocolate syrup has this annoying habit of settling out at the bottom of milk
You definitely shouldn't be drinking that if your throat is swelling, carry Benadryl in your wallet in case you do. You should probably get an allergy test too...
Worth the risk to drink chocolate milk /s
It certainly does its job effectively, but I would be cautious with it considering it might be pretty bad for the gut or at least exacerbate stuff like IBD: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38892712/
2 darkly amusing related articles you can find from that one: the first one can be summarized as asking the question "how has no one looked into the safety of this yet?" And the second one years later asking "how has there still not been anyone looking into the safety of this yet?"
it's definitely not an easily digestible substance, lol. I imagine some Beano could help in many cases
I just assumed carageenan was considered benign since people have been eating seaweed forever, but now that I think about it, there could be other stuff in the seaweed that prevents the carageenan from causing issues (even if it's just the added mass reducing its concentration).