Technically Food
Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat
Larissa Zimberoff . 2021 . Cedar Mill . 613.2 ZIMBEROFF
actually, mostly outside, too much NDA and public relations, not much "meat"
p8 Soylent cloyingly sweet meal-replacement shake ... coders shouldn't dabble in food
- p9 algae flexible, considered efficient
- p10 50% of oxygen from algae
p11 Elliot Roth Spira 2016(failed)
- p14 2018 USDA label "bioengineered"
p15 Carageenan from seaweed, outlawed EU, baby food US
- p18 algae ?? safety, bioavailability
- p28 Emergy Foods - Meati - 2015 - fail? - mycellium - Boulder CO
- p30 FDA "excellent source" 20% daily needs from one serving
p30 PDCAAS protein digestibility score, egg is 1.00, chicken is 0.95, algae is 0.6 to 0.8
- p33 "Natural flavorings" black box of food industry
p34 Archer Daniels Midland invented Soy TVP in 1960s
- p37 mycotech lab US? Defunct?
- p39 Planterra also soy
p43 90% saturated fat coconut oil used by "most every plant-based company"
p43 Modern Meadow cell-based animal fat
p45 Expo West natural product show
- p49 General Foods 1960s Isolate Protein Research 50 food scientists
- p49 process produces much wastewater
p49 Kelloggs owns Worthington and MorningStar Farms
- p50 processing chemical changes so some spray vitamins on their products
p50 Fu-hung Hsieh Insect protein could be used
- p52 cow 9 months from birth to burger
p52 McDonald's McPlant not in US
p53 Deborah A. Cohen MD 2013 A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Influences Behind the Obesity Epidemic—and How We Can End It OHSU Multco
- p53 98% of US consumes more protein than the RDA
- p53 Most "whole grain" bread is mixed from separate processed ingredients
p54 Ripple Foods plant-based milk "creamy"
p55 pea skin phenolic acids sour, bitter, and astringent flavors in some plant-based milk
p?? whey difficult to mimic, book mentions then loses thread
- p58 refined protein stripped of micronutrients is bad
p TMAO Trimethylamine_N-oxide elevates cardiovascular risk? More in meat
p60 Unsavory truth : how food companies skew the science of what we eat 2018
- p62 which milk is better: cow, almond, oat, or pea protein isolate?
p64 Low molecular weight carbohydrates can make you gassy
p64 Food: Facts And Principles 2001 oligosaccharides
p72 Isha Datar 2010 Possiblilities for an In Vitro Meat Production System
p72 Just Foods / Hampton Creek mayonnaise sued for not having eggs in mayonnaise by Unilever
p73 Oregon State University Food Innovation Center Sarah Masoni
p75 "forty proteins in chicken egg" ... no more than 1392
- p81 FDA no longer rigorously reviews novel food additives
p82 Vegetarian Times 2017 7.3M vegetararians
p92 Beer production in US 191M barrels of beer in 2019, 171M in 2024
p93 Increased food processing leads to increased glycemic load
stopped reading here, (name dropping) > (fact dropping) ... book overdue
p123 Chapter 7 Vertical Farms
p147 Chapter 8 Cell Based Meat
- p171 Chapter 9 Are We Buying What They're Selling?
- p187 composition error, Cell Based Meat at top of page, oopsie
- p191 Chapter 10 What Are We Eating in Twenty Years?
p191 Winston Churchill 1931 book Thoughts and Adventures predicted synthetic foods