Posted on 09/05/2015 11:34:00 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A Norwegian biorefinery company has started turning waste wood fibre into a cream-like fat substitute which it claims can be used to make ice cream, mayonnaise and even hot dogs.
Borregaard has already opened a plant in Wisconsin, USA, producing the revolutionary new substance, which it calls Sense-Fi,and plans to open a second factory in Sarpsborg, Norway, in 2016.
"We are rolling it out primarily in the US, where it has been approved. Sales are just about underway, and there is a lot of focus on fighting obesity," says business director Harald Rønneberg Borregaard to Norway's Dagbladet newspaper.
Researchers at the Paper and Fibre Institute in Trondheim worked tirelessly for ten years and spent millions of dollars in their quest to find a way to use fibre from trees into our food.
The new fibre apparently tastes, feels and fill you up like fat, but as it is in fact undigestible fibre, it does not pile on the pounds or provide extra energy.
You could poop a real log with this stuff.
Now figure out a way to turn it back into wood so you could save it up and build your dream home.
I want a House made from Hot Dogs. Now it is possible.
Did you have anything to do with Nanocellulose? I remember reading about it’s amazing properties a while back but haven’t heard anymore.
Is this any relation to the Nazis’ `ersatz’ sawdust bread of WWII?
Pheel phree to ingest Phoney ‘Phoods’ to your hearts (dis)content.
As for me and my family - No Thanks.
~ You Are What You Eat ~
Did they get the idea from North Korea?
You ever go over to a friends to eat and the food just ain’t no good?
The macaroni’s soggy, the peas are mushed, and the chicken tastes like wood!
(Bonus points if you know where this quote came from!)
Means disaster for the air freshener companies. Who farted that pine tree?
Meget godt! En Norske knot-head, tinker jeg!
Nick, you are correct. One of my candidates for songs played on ‘Radio Hell’.
Seems to me that it is just the same as putting sawdust in the bread when you are starving, fills you up but you are still STARVING.
What is ‘Radio Hell’? The songs I imagine they will play constantly in Hell. Yes, I have a list.
Kenny G 24/7.
Didn’t Olestra promise the same thing?
Ding ding ding ding!
Winner, winner... Chicken dinner!
Yep. The original Rap. Back when it was funny and had some limited musical value.
And your friend says “Man, there’s plenty of food”
So you pile some more on your plate
While the stinky food’s steamin’, your mind starts to dreamin’
Of the moment that it’s time to leave
And then you look at your plate and your chicken’s slowly rottin’
Into something that looks like cheese
Oh so you say “That’s it, I gotta leave this place
I don’t care what these people think,
I’m just sittin’ here makin’ myself nauseous
With this ugly food that stinks”
So you bust out the door while it’s still closed
Still sick from the food you ate
And then you run to the store for quick relief
From a bottle of Kaopectate
ROFL!
Believe it or not, I was like 11 or 12 years old when that came out. I, still to this day, some 35 years later, have it memorized; along with Morris Day and the Time’s “What Time Is It?”
I freak some of the youngsters out that I work with when I bust out with a line or two from either of them when is fits what’s going in the conversation.
Funny stuff!
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