  >Don't be so snobby about cake ingredients.

Surfactants/emulsifiers, from that list, have been connected to leaky gut ('emulsifying' protective mucus) which causes inflammation. This is hypothesized to be one of the mechanisms by which ultra-processed food causes a constellation of diseases.

Be snobby about cake ingredients.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9331555/

https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

▲ malfist 2 days ago | parent [-]

Leaky gut is a myth. It's used to scare people and sell things. If you don't believe me, feel free to read it's Wikipedia page.

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SapporoChris 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_gut_syndrome Thank you, I'd not read it was a myth before and had confused it with another condition 'worsening allergy symptoms due to the effects of alcohol'.

Sorry, I couldn't find a good link to describe the effect but did see numerous websites mentioning that alcohol can worsen allergy symptoms.

My allergist informed me that alcohol dilates the blood vessels allowing more allergens to pass thru. My anecdotal evidence is that I do seem to suffer from more food allergies when I drink alcohol. Foods that I have a mild allergy to become seem to be more problematic when I drink.

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account42 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's scary for how we have gone from "don't use Wikipedia as a citation" to "bro just trust what Wikipedia says about controversial topics".

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ricardobeat a day ago | parent | prev [-]

"Leaky gut" might be a myth, but emulsifiers' impact on gut health is not. A steady stream of studies [1] and publications on this [2] has been coming out, since the role of our microbiome became more clear.

[1] ex https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06224-3

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/29/the-tru...

	▲	malfist 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Lots of things are emulsifiers, are you saying eggs and butter are bad for the gut?