If you see “sodium alginate” on a food label, here’s what it actually does and why it’s in so many things now
There’s a certain kind of ingredient that shows up on food labels that always makes you pause. Not because it sounds particularly dangerous or exotic, but because it reads like something you’d find in a high school chemistry lab, not your almond milk. Sodium alginate is one of those ingredients. It’s quietly become a behind-the-scenes ...