Oh, if it’s cheap enough, you’ll see it on movie theater popcorn, and Waffle House grills, and anywhere else that greasy, vaguely butter-like stuff is good enough.
It’s probably got a spike protein in it
“, if it’s cheap enough, you’ll see it on movie theater popcorn, and Waffle House grills, and anywhere else that greasy, vaguely butter-like stuff is good enough”
Facts you can take this to the bank. All of those you listed are not even butter based right now. They are cottonseed based or palm oil based. More palm oil now that partially hydrogenated oils were banned for trans fats. Cotton is the most heavily sprayed plant for pesticides and cottonseed oil is solvent extraction with hexane a known carcinogen. Nothing Gates could make is worse than what is already at waffle house or AMC popcorn.
From the technical side of this they came up with a way to make fatty acids with the same chemical chains and alpha bonds to what the main fatty acids in butter are. Chemically they would be identical not even a mass spectrometry machine could tell the difference. The ratios could be tweaked since the catalysts make individual components and they are blended. Upping the omega 3s vs 6 would be a good thing.
You can be sure that the market will set the uptake of these kinds of products of they are cheaper than solvent extraction of seed oils they will take the place of those in commercial and industrial food settings like it or not.
How many joe six pack is going to ask to see the tub of absolute garbage fat that they are about to guzzle off the griddle at waffle house before eating what already is gut rot. Zero is the answer. Same for the person who just asked for extra liquid “butter” on their 3 gallon tub of popcorn before they waddle into the movie with a half gallon of sugary drink in the other sausage fingered hand. Yup zero.