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Well, no worries for me. I found out years ago I'm allergic to this stuff the hard way.

Gave me hives all over my face for a few hours. Intensely itchy.

Now whenever I drink something new, I always look out for it.

Have you had to adjust your diet to eliminate natural sources as well, or does the reaction only happen for high concentrations?

It seems to only happen in drinks with high concentrations.

Like this one.

https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.960552358.html

First ingredient (after water), wow. I guess that is not shocking, a lot of foods have been doing the same thing for years with sugar.

One thing I would like to see on labels is concentrations of the various ingredients. I suppose that gets into proprietary recipe information that no manufacturer will be keen on releasing, but it would be nice to know what % of a given concoction is made up by a given ingredient.

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