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[mishakal]

I find myself reading labels all the time lately. Why the hell is there calcium hydroxide in my corn chips :/

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[customdefault]

"In Native American and Latin American cooking, calcium hydroxide is called 'cal'. Corn cooked with cal becomes nixtamal which significantly increases its nutrition value, and is also considered tastier and easier to digest"

sorry, i was a chemistry major and i'm now a pharmacy student: i love chemicals lol

[flaede]

heh. I learned that one through Anthro/Archaelogy. Corn is weird.

[mishakal]

I might spam you with questions about what's in my food now, watch out :O

[customdefault]

lol that's totally fine! i always read food labels and identify why stuff's in there....you know you're a nerd when... lol

[paperflowers]

what IS calcium hydroxide, anyway? oy.