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Who will think of the label readers once again?! (I'm saying this dramatically for a funny effect but I'm also kind of actually mad about it.) I'm tired of being required to make everything from scratch because companies keep bastardizing their products. I'm too sick to make my own replacements!

I'm in the middle of reading a book on gluten-free baking, and one of this book's big things is: you don't need gums in gluten-free baking! Like 90-95% of things you can make just as well if not even better without added gums.

Gums are often high histamine, making most GF items at the grocery store unavailable to me. To be fair though, I avoided most gummy GF products even before becoming big sick. It's just not necessary. Why would I put something unnecessary like that into my body?

Why not just deal with slightly less than optimal texture? (Which again, doesn't even have to be the case, but too many food companies care more about swindling you out of your dollars with perfected products for the lowest production cost, than providing you something that's actually nutritious.)

I just wish more people gave a damn about what they were putting into their bodies bc: 1. It would benefit their own bodies and health! 2. It would make it possible at all for sick people to be able to buy more pre-made stuff at the store!

What irritates me the most is that the foods being sold as "health foods" are often some of the worst culprits.

PS: To be clear, I'm not a total buzzkill on unnecessary ingredients. Will I eat something like artificial food coloring on a birthday cake now and then? You bet I will. Because that's an every once in a while thing and not something I'm relying on for daily nutritional intake.