Hey, let’s come up with a new poison to replace them with:
“In icings, PHOs provide the air-holding capacity to achieve specific desired gravities, along with the melting and spreading characteristics that allow icings to be evenly spread on cakes,” said Tom Tiffany, senior technical manager, ADM Oils in Decatur, Ill. “The heat stability enables the icing to remain stable when exposed to a variety of transportation and storage conditions.”
Dr. McNeill said icings sold at retail may require a shelf life of up to 1.5 years. If shelf life fails to reach that duration, consumers may open a tub of icing and find it’s “like a piece of concrete,” Dr. McNeill said.
To replace PHOs and still keep the desired shelf life in icings, formulators may use palm oil along with a liquid vegetable oil such as canola oil or sunflower oil that may keep saturated fat as low as possible, he said.
Guys, there’s this thing called “butter.” And “lard.”
As Dr. Meade says:
Switching to saturated fat could be the SHORT term solution while waiting 2 develop some other frankenfat. Jesus wept http://t.co/ttRwCz6k1v
— Michael Eades, M.D. (@DrEades) June 4, 2014
When people say “franken____”, they immediately lose all credibility, sorry.
If there’s science to tell me why such notional future modified fats are bad, use it.
Namecalling puts him at the same level as anti-GMO activists.
The point is that they’re trying to invent some new kind of thing that we’re not designed to eat to replace something else that’s perfectly healthy for us.
uh no.
Using an evocative non-technical (in this case literary) description is not necessarily a credibility destroying non sequitur. Nor does using a similar tactic as another group necessarily put you “at their level”.
Keep in mind Twitter has a character limit. It incentivizes keeping things pithy. If his tweet was all tinyurls linking to science it wouldn’t be as much fun or get as much attention.
Using the “franken” prefix is not “evocative”. It’s raw emotionalism and ignorance in place of actual factual information and argumentation.
As for Twitter, it doesn’t “incentive” anything, any more than bumper stickers “incentivize” political debate. That it is so limiting should be considered a liability in any sort of intelligent discourse. Too often those who think they are being witty aren’t.
What this all comes down to is some people find these things “yucky” (there’s a twitter evocation for you) and will then label anything they don’t like as “poison”. It’s little better than quackery, mixed in with magical thinking, and buying food grown in shit and then bought at Whole Foods makes one a superior and moral person.
Honestly, frosting is easy and relatively quick to make from scratch. It ain’t wine; I doubt 18 months on the shelf improves it.