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DIET SUPPORT · 1 RECIPE

Diet Support

The newest and smallest shelf in the index: recipes built to support a diet rather than star in one. It opens with a single documented recipe, a digestive gummy set on agar and psyllium, its cumin, fennel, anise, chamomile, and mint traced to the compounds that earn their place.

No claims are made that the chemistry cannot carry, here least of all. As the shelf fills, each recipe will arrive with the same documentation as the rest of the index: exact amounts, named compounds, cited reading.

If digestion is what brought you here, the tea shelf runs deeper. The digestive tea blends

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The reading behind these recipes

Fifteen of the twenty said it was a different packet
№29Chemistry

Fifteen of the twenty said it was a different packet

In a booth in Oxford, twenty people bit into potato crisps while a microphone outside their mouths fed the sound back through headphones. Turn the high frequencies up and the same crisp is rated fresh. Turn them down and it is rated stale. Most of the panel left convinced they had been given more than one product.

10 August 2026·11 min read·17 SOURCES
Why arak turns white
№14Chemistry

Why arak turns white

Add water to arak and it clouds instantly, with nothing stirred in and nothing added to make it happen. The physics has a name, a 2003 paper behind it, and a second career manufacturing drug-delivery capsules.

3 August 2026·7 min read·7 SOURCES