Something fishy about this bread

The Herald-Sun ^ | 26aug03 | MICHELLE POUNTNEY

[yankeedame]

Something fishy about this bread

By MICHELLE POUNTNEY, science reporter

26aug03

AUSTRALIAN researchers have found a way to turn an essential nutrient found in fish, into a tasteless white powder and add it to everyday foods such as bread and bacon.

Tuna oil contains long-chain omega-3 DHA fatty acids, which are essential for brain and heart health. A process called microencapsulation turns the oil in to a fine white powder, masks the smell and flavour, and protects it from going off.

Nutritionist Wendy Morgan said functional foods could be the answer to the falling consumption of naturally occurring omega-3 DHA.

"It is in short supply in our diets nowadays," Ms Morgan said yesterday at the 2003 Foods for Life conference in Melbourne.

"Over the last few years we have had a decrease in the number of foods that are naturally rich in omega-3 DHA," she said.

Australians had cut many foods naturally rich in omega-3 DHA including eggs, oily fish, and brains, from their diets.

Our bodies cannot make the omega-3 DHA so it must be obtained from our diet.

The microencapsulation process had introduced omega-3 DHA to bread, bacon, orange juice, crumbed fish, infant formula and ham.

"It's very exciting from a public health point of view because omega-3 DHA is very important for brain health, heart health, it's been linked to things like reducing the risk of depression," she said.

"But the really novel thing is it's topping up essential nutrients in foods people like to eat."

[yankeedame]

Gives a whole new meaning to "loaves and fish".

[Dog Gone]

Cool. Turn bacon into health food. I'm all for it.

[joesnuffy]

fish heads fish heads rolly polly fish heads fish heads fish heads eat them up yum

[South40]

Is it bread fish or fish bread?

[blackdog]

Then again, this research has been conducted by the "Soylent Green Proteins Co". Their corporate slogan is......

"Today's irritating neighbor is tomorrows nutrition" The tuna runs out sometime eh?

[ClearCase_guy]

microencapsulation turns the oil in to a fine white powder, masks the smell and flavour, and protects it from going off.

Great, more white powder to worry about. Odorless, tasteless, hard to detect, and (we hope) not likely to "go off" at the wrong time.

[MineralMan]

"A process called microencapsulation turns the oil in to a fine white powder, masks the smell and flavour, and protects it from going off. "

And if the bread "goes off" accidentally, does that mean this becomes a gun rights thread?

[blackdog]

Ether that or a sex thread. When I dated, engaged, married, and continue to stay married I had to worry about things going off. Now I find out my bread goes off too.

[norraad]

"Ah wuz cleanin' my loaf, an'it went off!""

[Luke]

Well... I read it. Now I gotta ask, "Why?" Whats wrong with wheat?

The "wheat belt" right here in the United States could feed the world if the FEDs would stop paying farmers NOT to grow wheat.

[Chad Fairbanks]

A Teaspoon of Hemp Seed Oil on a salad daily also gives you your recommended doses of OMEGA-3s as well - for those who hate fish and/or fish oil... ;0)

[theDentist]

Can I add it to my fish, making it twice aas good for me?

[Rebelbase]

" Teaspoon of Hemp Seed Oil "

Any chance of failing drug tests....like the Sienfeld poppy seed muffin episode?

[blackdog]

The government does not pay farmers to not grow anything. That is a twisted myth. And a double negative I guess?

I am a farmer and what they pay you for is to idle your land for ten years minimum. It's called CRP. And it pays $50 bucks an acre. Not exactly loads o'cash. There is an elaborate system of LDP's and price mechanisms, but they never pay you to not grow anything.

A rural myth supported by sbuburban legend.

As for the bread, will it be dolphin safe?

[MineralMan]

"I am a farmer and what they pay you for is to idle your land for ten years minimum. It's called CRP. And it pays $50 bucks an acre. Not exactly loads o'cash. There is an elaborate system of LDP's and price mechanisms, but they never pay you to not grow anything. "


Hmm...idle your land, eh? Does that mean that you don't grow anything on it? I thought so. So if you have 1000 acres you're "idling," the gov't pays you $50,000? And they're not paying that for "not growing anything?" What do you thing "is" means?

[Savage Rider]

I think "going off" is probably Australian for "turning rancid."

[blackdog]

The CRP is an environmental program, not a crop program. The government is the renter of your land. It is encumbered. Should you die, become infirmed, need to sell any of it, it voids the lease and you must repay the government(all of it) $50 per acre does not even cover your realestate taxes. You cannot even cut weeds due to the habits of nesting birds on the ground.

Would you take $50 per acre to encumber your largest asset for ten years? I would think not.

If you let cropland go fallow for ten years, it will cost you a fortune to put it back into production. Trees, weeds, grasses, etc......One fourty of young meadow and forest is what you've got left. Not a bad thing IMHO, but not exactly of farmland value any more.

You can visit the USDA Farm Service websites and get actual information on these widely discussed but completely innacurate charicterizations of farm aid.

[UCANSEE2]

I know this is off subject, and has been referentially addressed, but isn't this process the exact same PROCESS that made airborne anthrax contamination feasible? The only reason I ask is that this would then seem to be another example of war technology used for improving the state/health of mankind.

[blackdog]

If you own 1000 acres of cropland valued at $3,000 per acre, just what do you think the realestate taxes would be on that? Where I live that would be $180,000 per year on farmland use. I doubt someone would encumber a $3,000,000 property for $50,000. That is unless you're independantly wealthy and do not want to see a shopping mall and 20,000 houses go up as your legacy.

[blackdog]

I thought the same thing. Depending on the robust coating of resins, you could poison someone a week later after ingesting or breathing a toxin. This is exactly the timed release technology in the pharmecutical industry. It's now being used on fertilizers, seed coatings, antibiotics(one pill for a weeks dose)