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Scientists are currently cultivating a marine plant that's packed with more nutrients than the trendy green superfood kale. And it naturally tastes like bacon.
Bacon-flavored crackers. Bacon-flavored salad dressing. These are just two of the savory treats that have been created so far using the domesticated strain of dulse (Palmaria palmata), a kind of red algae, or seaweed, that typically grows in the waters along northern Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.
I wonder if this will pass muster with my kosher- and halal-observing friends.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by ThePhilips on Friday July 17 2015, @12:56PM
So is there any indication that it is actually more healthy than average food?
There is no "healthiness" metric for the food, and nutrition/dietology is still closer to the witchcraft than to a real science.
In other words: no indication is possible at all.
Nutrition is complicated and important topic, but you rarely hear voices for funding more research. The nerd crowd would rather dream about the space travel, than finding out why the just eaten muffin could give them the food poisoning.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @03:32PM
This is very true.
For example a 2 liter of pepsi is considered 'low fat'.
Now is that healthy to drink? Not really. Is it OK to drink? Sure but dont do it all the time.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 17 2015, @05:53PM
For example a 2 liter of pepsi is considered 'low fat'.
Well, how much fat is actually in Pepsi? Not much.
Which makes it a true (though misleading) statement. It's up to you to know that a bajillion calories and grams of sugar also isn't good for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @10:42PM
Indeed. Proper nutrition considerations must take into account several different variables. Calories and fat content are only two such variables. It is left as an exercise for the reader to figure out the rest of these variables and how they are related.
(Score: 1) by ThePhilips on Saturday July 18 2015, @10:24AM
Well, how much fat is actually in Pepsi? Not much.
Fancy nutritional fact: human body is very good at converting the carbs into fat. It can also do the reverse - the fat to carbs - but at much slower rate.
That's how you can get fat by eating exclusively low-fat: to keep the calorie count, most of the diets are high-carb. There are even low-fat/high-carb diets for gaining weight. (Classical example being the diet of sumo wrestlers.)