 (UTC)  == Effects on blood sugar ==  It might be helpful to mention that research suggests xanthan gum has a beneficial effect on blood sugar, e.g. see http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/42/4/597.pdf but there are many other references: it appears that xanthan gum is helpful for diabetic people for example.  The wording of the article also does mention the toxicity testing, but does not mention that the LD50 test failed to find a high enough level of xanthan gum at which 50% of the animal subjects died: in other words, it's not known to be toxic at all.   01:28, 24 August 2010