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Energy
The Wild Ride of Guar Gum, Everyone's Favorite Starch
Energy
The Wild Ride of Guar Gum, Everyone's Favorite Starch
The domestic natural gas boom has sent prices for guar gum, used in everything from fracking fluid to ice cream to cat food, soaring.
Data: Spears and Associates, Calvin Trostle, and Bloomberg; Photos: Alamy(5); Getty Images(3)
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