Slashdot Mirror
Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood
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.
It sounds mostly like indigestible filler
Kinda like this story!
Heyooooooo
That is all.
How insanely orthorectic the world has become! Seriously, the very purpose of food is to supply energy to the body. If you don't want to supply energy, chew a gum or suck some stone candy. Neither this nor the noodle surrogate will trick your body to think it has been supplied with enough energy.
I bet it is really tasty when smothered with butter. It probably comes in a variety of flavors: pine, cedar, eucalyptus, oak, maple....
Who wood have thought?
is no longer offensive???!!! Sweeet.
eat a tree!
Search on Amazon: there are already dozens of konjac-based noodles. They are indeed widely used for weight loss.
These sorts of technologies always remind me of famine from Good Omens (By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman )
"
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal sweeteners; mineral oils replacing vegetable oils; fibrous materials, colourings, and flavourings. The end result was a foodstuff almost indistinguishable from any other except for two things. Firstly, the price, which was slightly higher, and secondly, the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman.
"
in wood?
will have a whole new meaning.
He created nouvelle (which consisted of a string bean, a couple of peas and a paper-thin slice of chicken), D-Plan dieting and various foods that contained no actual nutrition whatsoever. He enjoys the paradox permitted by modern food technology: that people can eat "foodstuffs" which look, smell, and taste like food, yet contain precisely zero on any scale of nutritive value. Obesity entertains him: the concept that people can eat far too much and yet still die of food-related disorders
http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawi...
Domino's pizza has been making their crust out of recycled wood for years.
Fiber is still good for your body, and many people need to control their calorie intake without wanting to forgo the satisfaction of feeling full. This isn't about starving yourself to death - it's about being able to better control what you eat.
Enjoy science fiction? "Turing Evolved" - AI, Mecha, Androids and rail-gun battles. What more could you want?
It gives me flatulence just thinking about it.
Left MS Windows for Linux Mint and never looked back!
Vote for Bernie in 2016!
Seriously, finally. Hopefully they can come up with a bread and a chip substitute. It is astounding how many calories are driven by bread and chips.
A cheeseburger with this will lose about 2/5ths its calories.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
A food "calorie" is a kilocalorie, you miron.
I've been on a mostly-Keto diet for over a year now. I dropped from 70kg to 61kg. The lowest I've been was 57kg but I've occasionally been eating pizza while travelling or drinking more with friends. Overall it's been a great lifestyle choice. I feel better. I have more energy. It's easier to build muscles. I weigh less and if all the data is correct, I have a much lower chance of heart disease.
I still meet people who sad low-carb is bad. I'm visiting some vegetarian friends who seriously believe that (and one of them teaches health classes in the Peace Corps!). I've been staying with them a month, eating way too many beans and potatoes. I finally went out an bought some meat on my own and next week I fly out. I'll be so glad to cook for myself again. I've gained at least 2kg while here.
Anyway, if these noodles are the real deal, and they don't taste like cardboard, it would awesome. I'd love to chow down on them with some pesto and feta cheese. Yum!
Cellulose powder/sawdust in food isn't really a new idea.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
Probably not hurting anything though.
Why would someone eat something that contains almost no nourishment
To enjoy the pleasure of food without contributing as much to obesity? cf. the entire diet-foods industry.
That said, I've had some of these yam-like noodle products, and the ones I got tasted like hell and digested even worse. Hopefully a large dose of cellulose can fix that. I'd love to have some chee cheong fun with the majority of calories coming from the sauce and meats!
You need either carbs or fat just to survive.
Or protein.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Same reason people drink diet soda.
That was low, no one should be compared to APK
I'm not positive of the name, but I want to say Nature's Harvest made a white bread that claimed to have 400% more fiber than 100% wheat bread in the 1980s. The way they were doing it was mixing sawdust in with the bread. In the ingredient list, they called it simply 'cellulose'.
I tried it and it tasted pretty much like any other loaf of bread. But once it became semi-public knowledge that there was wood in it, they took it off the market.
The big innovation here is adding wood pulp to an already zero-calorie food?? Konjac ("Devil's Tongue Yam") flour has zero calories and noodles made from it already taste good. You can find them in any asian market sold as "Shirataki Noodles" or in a solid block form called Konnyaku. They are traditionally part of Sukiyaki, and are available online from konjacfoods.com and miraclenoodle.com.
She'll just love your "morning wood!"
Next up: Stone candy.
It's stone soup. Look it up.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I'm reminded of the food products created by 'famine' in Pratchett & Gaimens' 'Good Omens' which one could eat as much as one wanted and yet starve to death -
"Nouvelle cuisine (the sort that consists of “a string bean, a pea, and a sliver of chicken breast, aesthetically arranged on a square china plate,” invented “the last time he’d been in Paris,”; diet fads (“D-Plan Dieting: Slim Yourself Beautiful, the book was called; The Diet Book of the Century!”; and new foods (“indistinguishable from any other [food] except for [] the nutritional content, which was roughly equivalent to that of a Sony Walkman. It didn’t matter how much you ate, you lost weight. [] And hair. And skin tone. And, if you ate enough of it long enough, vital signs”
I strongly recommend the book, incidentally - a great read -
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Ome...
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
... will make you shit a brick.
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
I always understood that a nutrition Calorie was written with a capital 'C', whereas the energy needed to heat 1 gram of water by 1 degree C was a 'calorie' (lower 'c'). By this definition the OP is correct.
These "woodles" (see a post above providing this name) should be an improvement in taste when served next to Haity mud pies. Similar nutritional value, but probably a bit tastier.
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
Explodes onto the market just like Olestra.
The human body is way more precise in long-term energy intake regulation
Bariatric surgery proves the reverse. Just reducing the volume of stomach makes the body filling full faster. And it's effective.
Eating energy-dense food combined with exercises and burning calories is a different story.
No longer am I held down by hypnotic toad rays, devious Italian subversion, or the enemies of Laura! They fall before me and I squash the toads effortlessly with one foot after another!
Obligatory Hypnotoad 10 Hours to test your resolve to continue with the starvation diet. As you gaze into those flippy-floppy eyes you will realize that you have been deceived. It is the common toads that you are squashing to clear the ecological niche for Hypnotoad progeny. You will not mind this. Your noddle-starved noodle will revel in it.
If you also eat the Styrofoam cups you'll be able to swim like Aquaman.
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
The Germans apparently ate sawdust during WW1: The foul black bread that was served was known as kriegsbrot, which translates to war bread. The recipe is quoted from the records of the German food providing ministry published in Berlin in 1941 was "50% bruised rye grain, 20% sliced sugar beets, 20% tree flour (sawdust), 10% minced leaves and straw" - https://books.google.ca/books?...
What about cinnamon? Woodn't that qualify as wood food too? Definitely more natural than eating shoes or drinking socks tea.
I have no idea what it tastes like because its ludicrously expensive. Holland and Barrett sell quite a few brands of it. Most are packaged in watery bags which suggests the noodles themselves are saturated with water and lose their cohesion if they're allowed to dry out.
You still need carbs, it's just that your body is capable of turning things other than carbs into carbs. Similarly, we need vitamin D to be fully functional health-wise, and that can come from sunlight or milk. That doesn't mean we don't need Vitamin D.
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
As far as I recall, from looking at pictures of him, APK is a very large guy. You perhaps shouldn't mix "not fat" with "APK".
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Why not eat nutritious food instead?
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
The EU's unit would be a MegaMoron, such as yourself.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Termites may be displaced if humans start eating wood. And what will happen to the lowly beaver?
Wouldn't it be funny if after extended consumption of this product, the gut biome changes to resemble a termite's and people start extracting nutrients and getting fat from the fermenting cellulose?
I remembered high-fiber, low calorie bread ... made with wood fiber.
See Wood pulp as fiber in bread
"There is no god but allah" - well, they got it half right.
Not to mention all the dips you eat with them. Low-carb diets work for several reasons, but the simplest is that it's a lot harder to eat junk food.
If for some reason this becomes wildly popular then some gut bacteria will happily evolve to eat the wood. It then may very well provide us with more sustenance. If I understand correctly Japanese people often have a gut bacteria that helps them to better digest Seaweed.
Celery already exists, has negative net calories, and tastes better than wood.
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I lived in Japan and used to eat Konjac for dinner in a bid to be an itty bitty white girl in Japan. It worked like a charm. I cooked the noodles in pasta sauce and it tasted like spaghetti. Problem is, this stuff does NOT fill you up. I just got used to being hungry. These types of foods will never solve obesity because you do not feel full after eating it. Same as you will still feel hungry even if you gorge yourself on soup broth. Your stomach may be full but the hunger is still there. Obesity won't be solved until portion control and healthy eating are firmly established as a person's diet.
So now they can stop eating whales and dolphins!: http://www.newser.com/story/21...