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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: -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....

      Finally something lard-ass Americans can eat.

      Maybe doctors could go back to infecting lardass fatass gluttonous disgusting fatbody motherfuckers with tapeworms. For their own good.

      Especially fat women are pathetic. There is only one thing a woman must do and a great majority of men will find her attractive: don't fucking get fat. That's it. They can't even handle THAT? Losing weight is easy unless you insist on blaming something or somebody but yourself. Pathetic lazy gluttonous lard asses. Even APK is smarter than that and he's a total cunt douchebag.

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

      Don't forget Hemlock!