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ANTI-CAKING

Silicon dioxide

What it is

Food-grade sand keeping the powder pourable.

Why your biology objects

Inert and largely unabsorbed — it passes through doing only its anti-clumping job. Its presence simply says the ingredient it's guarding was milled to dust a long way from where you'll eat it.

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