Indeed. We buy it very cheaply (~$1/litre) in Polish and Russian shops. I very much like the creamy sour taste.
I'm thinking of branching out, a friend said I could use kefir and teff flour to make a very good substitute for injera. I'm pretty sure it would also sub for buttermilk in almost any recipe.
We made our for years (google kefir mushrooms) but became lazy when a Polish shop opened up in town!
I have used it in other recipes, allowing for the fermented taste / texture.
Little pots of "yacult", expensive highly advertised pro-biotics are widely available. At a price.
I have used it in other recipes, allowing for the fermented taste / texture.
Little pots of "yacult", expensive highly advertised pro-biotics are widely available. At a price.
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It's good to teach the young..I am rarely disappointed by those here. Actually, never..
I worry about the yout of today, always trusting everything on the web without questioning.
Hopefully, my humor and point are not lost. However....
Jn
Yes, I think so. He was up against not just the medical profession (who tend to believe only what they were taught in medical school) but also the antacid drug manufacturers who saw their market disappearing.jneutron said:
Give us time, we'll disappoint you. ;-)
And issues surrounding incredulity with the web are universal, sadly.
Bill-we work on smaller samples, so our toys are closer to a hand blender, but much better about breaking things up finely.
GLYPHOSATE
I don't know what is going on, but recently most of the fruit and veggies that
I've eaten have a chemical taste too them that I didn't notice before in the
last three to six months.
These include "fresh" corn on the cob, peeled baby carrots from the
large Fresno California processing plant, whole carrots, blue berries, most strawberries
cherries, etc, etc.
Heck even some of the beef tastes like crap and I remember how much I loved it
as a kid, adult, young and middle aged adult. But not, yuuch.
Here is the linke to a MIT Researcher, what think you?
MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Will Cause Half of All Children To Be Autistic by 2025. Yeah, sure. | American Council on Science and Health
KEFIR
Kefir is good. I hope. 🙂 It's a me too.
Of course I sat through that internet presentation which suggested
buying 100USD of probiotic pills a month. You know they kind,
they give you that sales pitch but don't let you know until the end
what it is and how much it costs....well it costs time just reading
about it.
DDT
They say they are tyring to make this a comback chemical/pesticide, well how true
is that and they say that all the problems with the chemical and wiping out wildlife
are psuedo-science and that the studies were flawed?
However, they made the point that it is used in places with malaria problems and
it doesn't wipe out the bird/fish/animal life. Anyone know of studies that show
this to be true?
I grew up on the central California coast in the 60s until about 1975. I don't recall
seeing the fish eating pelicans until about 2 or 3 years before we moved and that
if i recall correctly was about a decade after DDT was banned?
NOTE: I did write Dr. Josh Bloom and asked him the DDT question and another question
about the chemicals, faulty research 10 days ago, I have not received a response.
Just general thoughts here I'll try to find the article that I read.
Cheers,
I don't know what is going on, but recently most of the fruit and veggies that
I've eaten have a chemical taste too them that I didn't notice before in the
last three to six months.
These include "fresh" corn on the cob, peeled baby carrots from the
large Fresno California processing plant, whole carrots, blue berries, most strawberries
cherries, etc, etc.
Heck even some of the beef tastes like crap and I remember how much I loved it
as a kid, adult, young and middle aged adult. But not, yuuch.
Here is the linke to a MIT Researcher, what think you?
MIT Researcher: Glyphosate Will Cause Half of All Children To Be Autistic by 2025. Yeah, sure. | American Council on Science and Health
KEFIR
Kefir is good. I hope. 🙂 It's a me too.
Of course I sat through that internet presentation which suggested
buying 100USD of probiotic pills a month. You know they kind,
they give you that sales pitch but don't let you know until the end
what it is and how much it costs....well it costs time just reading
about it.
DDT
They say they are tyring to make this a comback chemical/pesticide, well how true
is that and they say that all the problems with the chemical and wiping out wildlife
are psuedo-science and that the studies were flawed?
However, they made the point that it is used in places with malaria problems and
it doesn't wipe out the bird/fish/animal life. Anyone know of studies that show
this to be true?
I grew up on the central California coast in the 60s until about 1975. I don't recall
seeing the fish eating pelicans until about 2 or 3 years before we moved and that
if i recall correctly was about a decade after DDT was banned?
NOTE: I did write Dr. Josh Bloom and asked him the DDT question and another question
about the chemicals, faulty research 10 days ago, I have not received a response.
Just general thoughts here I'll try to find the article that I read.
Cheers,
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This one at least is often treated for anti-spoilage because of the surface damage.
Everything is toxic... the LD50(*) of spinach is about 9 Kg (20 lb), but I still eat it regularly.
Putting it in context, last year the local food safety authority tested wheat (presumably RR) for glyphosate residues. At the highest concentration found, I would need to consume 14 Kg of wheat products each day to reach the acceptable daily allowance.
(*) In case anyone doesn't know, the LD50 is the dose which has a 50% chance of being lethal.
Putting it in context, last year the local food safety authority tested wheat (presumably RR) for glyphosate residues. At the highest concentration found, I would need to consume 14 Kg of wheat products each day to reach the acceptable daily allowance.
(*) In case anyone doesn't know, the LD50 is the dose which has a 50% chance of being lethal.
Uh huh, so that's the 50% kill rate, so what are the effects subtle and otherwise of consistent lower (including much lower) dosage rates ?.
Dan.
I would imagine 9kg's of any type of food at all in the digestion system might have a 50% chance to kill. How is it even possible to stuff yourself with 9kg's of spinach? It must be a calculated value derived from the nutrient content.
Drink enough water and it will kill you. I've seen it in the news occasionally.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770067/
When I was in college there was a poster for broccoli showing it naturally contained something like 13 known carcinogens, yet we don't worry about eating broccoli.
How low of a concentration is low enough?
According to this article which points to research:
"Ames points out that we ingest about 10,000 times more natural pesticides, by weight, than synthetic pesticides. Of the 42 plant toxins so far tested on laboratory animals, 20 have been shown to be carcinogens, Ames notes."
http://www.the-scientist.com/?artic...arcinogens--Putting-The-Risks-In-Perspective/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770067/
When I was in college there was a poster for broccoli showing it naturally contained something like 13 known carcinogens, yet we don't worry about eating broccoli.
How low of a concentration is low enough?
According to this article which points to research:
"Ames points out that we ingest about 10,000 times more natural pesticides, by weight, than synthetic pesticides. Of the 42 plant toxins so far tested on laboratory animals, 20 have been shown to be carcinogens, Ames notes."
http://www.the-scientist.com/?artic...arcinogens--Putting-The-Risks-In-Perspective/
Yup, and by and large we still cannot synthesize any quite as good as the natural ones. Admittedly mother nature has had a sizeable head start.
It another form of naturalistic fallacy. We humans have only extremely recently been living as long as we do. How much of what was ostensibly okay is actually killing us? (Plants make tons of toxins that we're not adapted to) So perhaps it's best to leverage that which we can measure.
What previously killed we humans at much younger ages was infant mortality, infectious diseases, tainted food and especially water and lack of sewage systems, war and general violence/mayhem (read Stephen Pinker's "The Better Angels of Our Nature).
My grandmother born only 119 years ago was one of 18 children (stillbirths included) with only 5 of them living to adulthood and only two of the five lived beyond their 60's. She had only two children, one survived to 91 and my Mom is still healthy and well at nearly 95. Our food sources, health care and general well being are far from perfect but to argue that we are all being systematically poisoned flies in the face of the contrary evidence that is all around us.
My grandmother born only 119 years ago was one of 18 children (stillbirths included) with only 5 of them living to adulthood and only two of the five lived beyond their 60's. She had only two children, one survived to 91 and my Mom is still healthy and well at nearly 95. Our food sources, health care and general well being are far from perfect but to argue that we are all being systematically poisoned flies in the face of the contrary evidence that is all around us.
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