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Reviewer: 55-64 on Treatment for 10 years or more (Caregiver)
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What the heck it is in pudding, jello ,by kraft it also has bha cancer causing everyone needs to read ingredients a lot of bad in most foods.read the box so much bad had contacted them.no contact back.should not be ingredient for food.do not use for treatment like natural fibers.
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Reviewer: 55-64 Female (Consumer)
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I experience severe anaphylactic reactions to xanthan gum -- no GI symptoms at all and no allergies to substances used to "grow" xanthan gum. Avoiding all exposures (dietary and personal care) with direction from my board-certified allergist. Carry epi-pens at all times.
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Reviewer: drsjwriter, 65-74 (Consumer)
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Many of the non-gluten recipes call for Xanthan gum. I didn't have any, so I have been using coconut flour, instead-- about 1.5 more than XG called for. After reading the probs. associated with this, I'm going to stick to the coconut flour. Thanks
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Reviewer: Getting Better, 45-54 on Treatment for less than 1 month (Consumer)
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I finally pinpointed this xanthan gum as an ingredient causing me a return of fibromyalgia like symptoms: pain, sleep trouble, stiffness, etc. I had gone through a food elimination program and much of my autoimmune related illnesses had disappeared after I learned to avoid wheat, corn, and soy. Fine tuning symptom flares pointed to xanthan gum, and made perfect sense upon learning it is often der
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Reviewer: dud, 45-54 Male on Treatment for 10 years or more (Consumer)
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make me run a fever sore joints flu like symptoms or like I have ate food that has gone bad.
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