The guar gum example

During my childhood, I was regularly required to eat a vegetable, which was unequalled in its combination of fibrousness and bitterness. Nobody in the family actually liked it, but, for some reason, it found its way on to the table. I have generally managed to avoid it after exiting the parental establishment and really never gave it a second thought, let alone imagined that I'd one day write a column on it. But guar, or the cluster bean, exemplifies reinvention. So what if it tastes foul; it has other, far more lucrative, uses!

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