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“Sourdough bread should have just water, salt, wild yeast and flour as the ingredients, but even products claiming to be sourdough in supermarkets are often in fact ‘sourfaux’, with up to fifteen ingredients, including palm oil and commercial yeast”

“[Cottonseed] oil contained a toxin called gossypol, which protects the plant from insects but also leads to reduced fertility in men, as well as a number of other impurities that made it taste foul. The solution to these problems was a process now known as RBD, whereby oils are refined, bleached and deodorised”