Dan Scanlan:
> On Jul 15, 2005, at 12:27 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
>> (There was also a
>> bizarre law that said that people had to buy oleo only in the
>> uncolored form, so that they bought the dye separately and mixed them
>> up.)
>>
>
> I have memories of my Mom mixing the coloring into the oleo when I was
> a small child in Lawndale, CA, in the Los Angeles area. Maybe it was a
> law, there, too.
>
> Dan
Times change, so does what's generally recognized as food.
[Pardon the Google translation from the original French]
<...>
The fat which is not digested
The company Proctor and Gamble spent more than 200 million dollars
to develop a food fat which is not digested. They succeeded in binding
eight fatty acids to groupings OH of a saccharose. The new molecule,
baptized Olestra, is sold under the mark of Olean trade.
The digestive enzyme responsible for the digestion of the lipids in the
intestine cannot thread between all these fatty acids and to reach the
sites where they are related to the saccharose. L' Olestra cannot thus be
digested and, obviously, not being absorbed (it carries on its way in the
intestine),
it cannot make fatten.
Its use was prohibited in Canada by Santé Canada .
<...>
http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://ici.cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca/profs/gbourbonnais/pascal/fya/chimcell/notesmolecules/lipides_1.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGRAS%2Bfor%2Bolean%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D
In the U.S., it's OK to put Olean(artificial fat) into processed food products,
junk food mostly. It caused gastric problems for a measurable % of the
population when used for cooking/spreading(!) purposes, but the solution
was simple and elegant. P&G quite publicly, and with much media fanfare,
removed it from the consumer market and re-introduced it through the food
processing industry courtesy of a GRAS listing.
As I mentioned, junk food mostly. Guess which age group eat large amounts
(well ok, larger amounts)? Kids. The first generation of GMO/"artificial" kids
are
right around the corner, although "Generation GMO"... it just doesn't have that
"ring" to it like x or y. Ah well...
Makes one wax nostalgic for the days when you had to mix the dye
(was it Carotene, or Aniline dye?) into the oleo.
The GRAS for meat & poultry:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FSISDirectives/7120.1.htm
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~rdb/opa-gras.html
Leigh
