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“Red meat allergy” from tick bites is spreading both in US and globally (arstechnica.com)
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Woke ticks are out to turn the US South into soyboys

(did I do that right?)

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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pretty sure I'm allergic to carageenan. It's in chocolate milk and whenever I drink that it becomes difficult for me to breath

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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).

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