Soon, Daily Harvest had narrowed its internal investigation to a new ingredient used for its high-protein content: tara flour.
Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru.
The pods of the tara plant are used to make tara gum and tara flour.
As some consumers had discovered, tara flour was not safe, the FDA decreed in May 2024 — nearly two years after the ingredient sickened hundreds.
During that time, however, other manufacturers could have used the now-“unapproved food additive.”“This incident shows how broken our food regulatory system is.
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