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DOUGH CONDITIONER

Azodicarbonamide

What it is

The "yoga-mat" dough improver — the same molecule that blows bubbles into foam plastics.

Why your biology objects

It bleaches and strengthens dough fast, but breaks down into semicarbazide and urethane, byproducts flagged as carcinogenic concerns — which is why it's banned in the EU and Australia. In the US it just whitens flour faster than time would.

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