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Some soft bread uses hair-derived ingredients

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Enjoy your incredibly soft morning toast, now with a hint of barbershop floor. Many commercial dough conditioners utilize L-cysteine, an amino acid cheaply extracted by boiling down human hair or duck feathers, which breaks down gluten chains to make factory-produced bread artificially fluffy.

Some soft bread uses hair-derived ingredients
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