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The good stuff is usually potato starch or corn starch, but the cheap stuff is indeed often "cellulose". Apparently some use both.
yim yum, cellulose, my four stomachs will take care of that!
it's just indigestible fiber, it's honestly probably doing you a favor if you eat a lot of cheese
yeah, i was wondering that. but is industrial grade cellulose really like normal fiber you get from vegetables?
As long as it doesn't have like wood splinters (idk why it would) or come from something with toxins in or on it then idk why it would be harmful for you at all. You just can't digest it. It's no worse than eating a bunch of corn and pooping out the shell from the kernels
"the case for putting finely ground sawdust back in white bread"
in this paper i will argue... :D
sawdust isn't just cellulose though, idk how they source food grade cellulose as an additive but it'd be more like ground up straw or something. Wood sawdust is full of lignin
Anti-caking agent is probably chemically treated microcrystalline cellulose (E460 i).
i'm no dietician but does indigestable fiber even provide the same benefits as digestible fiber?
...goes n looks...
huh. well I'll be. we do get something out of cellulose after all. i wonder if you have to cultivate this particular gut flora or if other fiber eaters cover cellulose too (not that Americans can easily avoid it)?
Cellulose is the most abundant organic molecule on Earth and is unavoidably part of all non-carnivore diets. Everyone is digesting at least some cellulose all the time.
that answers that lol
I've been stuffing termites in my appendix for just such an occasion