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CircaSixty8 t1_j04z2yc wrote

Reply to comment by matdex in TIL that until 2012, when they switched to a bacterial source, Roche Pharmaceuticals used up to 90% of the world's annual star anise crop to produce shikimic acid, a chemical intermediate used in the synthesis of oseltamivir (Tamiflu) by Kintpuash-of-Kush

Which is why Pho is literally medicine.

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Procrasturbating t1_j050smo wrote

A chemical intermediate does not mean a medicine, just a chemical needed to make one chemical into another that is a medicine... Pho is freaking fantastic though.

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