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That's great! Sometimes I feel like there is someone warning you about pretty much everything there is to eat!

I once read on a web page for example that rapeseed oil was highly toxic and not fit to feed either humans nor animals with. That source also claimed that no insects will eat it either and that that would prove that it's toxic. Hahaha! I grew up in the countryside and we grew rapeseed and I find it was pretty popular among insects.

In Sweden there is even a little bug called "rapsbagge". I'm not sure what it's called in English but the translation of the Swedish name is rapeseed bug.

Anyway, my point is that sometimes I get a bit obsessive about food additives after coming to these boards and that's never good. Of course if you have weird reactions to something then you shouldn't eat it, but it gets unhealthy if it gets to the point where you don't even dare to try new things...

When I did the search on carrageenan on the diet board I found a post that quoted an article I think that to me seemed a bit unbalanced. I find that unfortunately, although I'm sure the intentions are good, people with an alternative view on things often meet the sometimes far too one-dimensional claims of some scientists or health professionals by being completely one-dimensional themselves.

It's hard to know though, because I have checked almost every question I have had with the Swedish national authority for food et.c. and they typically say that there is no need to be worried. But they for example say that MSG is totally fine in the small quantities that are allowed in Sweden in things like broth for example and that you simply can't have reactions to that small amounts. (They claim you must reach an intake of gram size to have a reaction.) Still I know some people here are sensitive to even small amounts of MSG. At least that is the impression I have got. So then I feel it's hard to know whom to listen to when I have more questions.

Anyway, bla bla bla

, thanks again Syl for providing good info!

/Ulrika, IBS-D

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