Guar Gum is in Every cheap food. It lets them use more water and less real food while making it thicker to think you think it's more food. Things like cottage cheese almond milk. It absorbs eight times as much water as corn starch so can make you bloated gas constipation hemorrhoids and kill you!
(www.livestrong.com)https://www.livestrong.com/article/314356-the-harmful-side-effects-of-guar-gum/If you read the ingredients of the cheap brands of things like cottage cheese half and half and other things say the Walmart brand or the Kroger Brand versus some other brand you'll see that they add guar gum. They'll say it's less than 2%, but the thing is a quarter of an ounce of that stuff can absorb a couple liquid so it means that what you think may be cottage cheese or what you think maybe half and half is actually a huge amount of thickened water with guar gum. Problem is that stuff gets in your body and it continues to thicken. It can thicken your stool so much you get constipated which makes you strain which then gives you hemorrhoids. It can actually cause intestinal blockages. That can actually kill you. You're having a lot of pain and bloating and gas and you're buying the cheap forms of these foods look at the ingredients.
For example of 32 oz container of Great value Walmart brand cottage cheese contains guacam costs $2.48 or as a 32 oz container of cottage cheese made by Daisy contains only milk cream and salt anime cost $3.40. but the problem is you're actually probably getting more cottage cheese even though the weight is the same in the daisy so you could probably get the half the size of the daisy that you do with the Kroger one.
And you're not going to have a bunch of guar gum in your intestines doing God knows what..