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What are diglycerides, anyways?

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April 14, 2009

From Cooking Up a Story comes a useful post parsing the mysterious ingredients on the labels of commercial bread. It’s kind of like a mini-dictionary for bread shoppers. Like, who knew that “Mono & Di-glycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate (SSL), and Diacetyl Esters of Tartaric Acid (DATEM)” are all emulsifiers? Huh.

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