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
--- stopped reading here, (name dropping) > (fact dropping) 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