Something in Your Food is Moving

Dekortage writes "The New York Times has a report on probiotic food: food that has live bacteria in it. From the article: "[for Dannon's] Activia, a line of yogurt with special live bacteria that are marketed as aiding regularity, sales in United States stores have soared well past the $100 million mark.... Probiotics in food are part of a larger trend toward 'functional foods,' which stress their ability to deliver benefits that have traditionally been the realm of medicine or dietary supplements.""

Comments

Patent infringement?

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Activia, a line of yogurt with special live bacteria that are marketed as aiding regularity

Taco Bell should sue them for patent infringement.

Re:Patent infringement?

[EmagGeek]

They said "aiding regularity," not "forcibly exploding your colon out through your asshole."

Re:Patent infringement?

[__aaclcg7560]

What's the difference? Everything ends up in the toliet bowl of life...

Re:Patent infringement?

[JanneM]

They said "aiding regularity," not "forcibly exploding your colon out through your asshole."

Well, if it bursts out on the hour, every hour...

Re:Patent infringement?

[springbox]

No, it's more like - If Dannon tries to file a patent, Taco Bell already has prior art.

Re:Patent infringement?

[zobier]

The survivors of the Ice Age that killed off almost all Homo Sapiens all those Millenia ago were known to be huge meat eaters, dining on the wicked fast shellfish that gathered on the shores of ancient Africa (HUGE piles of proto-oyster shells are ample evidence of the evolutionary presence of meat in our diets).

Just to clarify; are you suggesting we were killing ourselves off or some other Homo sp.?

Where's the Gagh?

[Chicken04GTO]

Wheres the Gagh? [/wendys wheres the beef lady]

Activia

[ShaunC]

I've been eating Activia for breakfast every morning for probably 6 months, and haven't really noticed that it's doing any good in the gastro department. Maybe if I quit having vodka for dinner...

Re:Activia

[SNR monkey]

Actually, I think it's the vodka + Activia for breakfast that is keeping me from seeing any real benefits.

Re:Activia

[42nnn]

Activa has Active in the name so fat ladys dont feel bad when they eat 30 of them

Re:Activia

[Rei]

I think that's common knowledge. There's an old joke that goes something like:

"Q: What's the difference between (city-you-hate) and yoghurt?

A: Yoghurt has an active, living culture."

Re:Activia

[gEvil (beta)]

God. It's like an orgy in my mouth... (Because it is!)

Ahhh yes, the bukkake of yogurts...

Yogurt!

[ReidMaynard]

Now with FHG-4532 !
(what's that? My License plate)

Functionality

[JudgeSlash]

Get back to me when my vindaloo can fetch some beer.

I support probiotic foods

[brother_b]

In fact, I consume a good quantity of it on a regular basis. This is assuming that bottle-conditioned unfiltered beer counts.

Man, live yeast really gives you gas of doom, though.

Re:Mmmmm bugs

[AutopsyReport]

I love that sensation of the probiotics crawling down my throat!

If I only I could get my wife to say the same thing.

Re:Mmmmm bugs

[Anonymous Coward]

I can get your wife to say it.

Re:Let's not make this a "craze" for marketing's s

[pryonic]

Actually, has anyone seen my organic ?

Re:I hate to break it to you all, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on people, we survived for years without all this over-sanitisation, I'm sure we can survive a few colds and a bit of stomach flu! That reminds me of an old joke:

"How Middle-Ages people survived without the fridge?"
"They didn't."

But anyway... we live longer than even 30 yrs. ago (on average), and that is because of sanitisation (pollution on the other end is balancing things out.) Having said that tho, I do agree with you. I remember playing in the mud with my plastic soldiers something that would horrify many of today's mums and nothing terrible ever happened to me... a part from the evil monkey hidden in the wardrobe.

Re:New to the US

[Anonymous Coward]

the US has a long way to go before reaching the standards in terms of taste and healthiness (is that a word?)

Maybe in English, but not in American.

Yogurt pirates?

[sammy baby]

Thanks. Now I will be unable to think about anything but the phrase "yogurt pirates" for the rest of the day.

"Yar, matey. Yo ho ho, and a packet of acidophilus."

You call it Old Faithful

[theshowmecanuck]

You call it 'Old Faithful' and tourists come to watch.

Re:You call it Old Faithful

[daeg]

"Do not consume before long staff meetings!

I see you've never been in a staff meeting that you need a strategic escape from. Once others catch on to you that you're having your mother call you precisely 30 minutes into every single meeting, you need to find another escape plan. It's easy to hide yogurt; it's not easy to hide Taco Bell, particularly if you work with any stoners.

I see a very large market that Activia can tap into. The trapped business professional!

Re:Old news

[KDR_11k]

You're not supposed to eat the stuff Dibbler sells.

Re:Cheese

[altek]

And not a single one of them gets smoked without first emptying the contents and refilling it with a different substance ;)

Re:Testing

[Johnny5000]

The sugar in milk is lactose and it is found only in the milk of mammals.

Mammal milk you say? As opposed to what, bird milk?