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Popcorn is the snack to beat all snacks. It’s tasty, high in fiber, and you can season it with everything from butter and salt to wasabi. (There’s even Simon and Garfunkel popcorn—made, of course, with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.) The advent of the microwave meant more for popcorn than perhaps any other food, and these days most of us satisfy our popcorn cravings by just nuking a bag of Pop Secret. But microwave popcorn has its downsides: It’s high in calories and . Plus, until recently, microwave popcorn was manufactured with a chemical called diacetyl, which caused some popcorn-factory workers—and even one consumer—to develop a serious disease called popcorn lung.

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