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Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood

Posted by timothy on from the anything-that-makes-cellulose-digestible dept.

AmiMoJo writes: Omikenshi Co, an Osaka based cloth manufacturer best known for rayon, a fibre made from tree pulp, is expanding into the health food business. Using a similar process, Omikenshi is turning the indigestible cellulose into a pulp that's mixed with konjac, a yam-like plant grown in Japan. The resulting fibre-rich flour, which the company calls "cell-eat," contains no gluten, no fat and almost no carbohydrate. It has just 60 calories a kilogram, compared with 3,680 for wheat.

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  1. Gluten Free First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Low calorie substance with full calorie taste.

    1. Re: Gluten Free First Post by pollarda · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I bet it is really tasty when smothered with butter. It probably comes in a variety of flavors: pine, cedar, eucalyptus, oak, maple....

    2. Re: Gluten Free First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Don't forget Hemlock!