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Learn Your Label Lingo

Posted on May 27th 2009 1:00PM by Jacki Donaldson
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This is what you might find in some of your favorite foods: Maltodextrin, Inulin, Methylcellulose, Xanthan Gum, Carmine and Mono- and Diglycerides. But do you know what these big words mean? FitSugar does, and they decode these ingredients so you can become a more savvy shopper.

Consider this: Xanthan gum is a commonly-used ingredient made by fermenting corn sugar with a bacteria knows as Xanthomonas campestris bacterium -- the same bacteria that causes black spots to form on broccoli or cauliflower. Visit FitSugar to find out what else you're putting in your body.

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