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ANTI-CAKING

Ferrocyanide

What it is

An anti-caking agent in table salt — the "cyanide" in the name scares people more than it should.

Why your biology objects

The cyanide is locked in a stable iron complex that doesn't release free cyanide under cooking or digestion — chemically inert and used at trace levels. Read it as a tell, not a toxin: it's there so refined salt pours, a long way from the sea or the mine.

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