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A new NutriNet-Sante analysis from the Touvier and Srour group looks at food additive glutamate and cardiovascular risk. The digest recorded its existence and provenance; no effect sizes were extracted.
American Journal of Clinical · Hasenbohler et al. · 8 August 2026 · PMID 42570865
Soy lecithin and DATEM produced dose dependent gut barrier disruption and cytotoxicity at daily exposure doses in gut on a chip models, human colon organoids and mice, with IgE effects in mice and human cells. Not a human study.
Allergy · Yazici et al. · 8 August 2026 · PMID 42568319
A comprehensive review asks whether carrageenan is a food additive or a health concern, and a companion mechanism paper reports Bacteroides desulfating carrageenan and feeding hydrogen sulfide production. Reviews and mechanisms, not new human evidence.
Annals of Nutrition and · Arslan et al. · 6 August 2026 · PMID 42560937
Rather than treating ultra-processed food as one category, German researchers broke it into nine groups of specific additives and followed 101,560 UK Biobank participants for a median of ten and a half years. Only four of the nine additive categories tracked with new hypertension. Five showed no association at all, and three specific additives ran the other way.
European Heart Journal · Krost et al. · Justus-Liebig University of Giessen · 3 August 2026 · PMID 42545878
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