Bill Gates-backed startup makes ‘butter’ out of water and carbon dioxide : science

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

so what i don't get is how any margarine could have the same flavour as butter without adding in some sort of protein and presumably a bit of sweetener, considering that butter is fat/milk protein/milk sugar (lactose)..

You can obviously get close enough (i mostly eat margarine), the non-fat content of butter is very small after all, but still surely you have to add those things to get that extra kick of flavour that butter has?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

This isn’t margarine. Margarine is made from hydrogenated vegetable oil. This process allegedly creates the same hydrocarbon chain fatty acids found in butter.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

what it's made from is utterly and completely irrelevant, both margarine and butter are primarily just fat. My point is that i don't see how you can replicate the precise flavour of butter with only fat.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Margarine is dangarous, it contain high amount of trans fat. Try to avoid it

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

where on earth did you get that nonsense from? the swedish food safety agency explicitly says that modern margarine contains basically no trans fat at all, and the primary source of trans fat is diary products

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ok ok you don't need this attitude. I wasn't aware of the 2018 FDA ban on trans fat.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

i mean then maybe you shouldn’t make statements like that? just go look up the contents real quick before you hit post, and if it turns out it’s completely incorrect all you need to do is click cancel and go on with life

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The largest (farm) landowner in the US is backing a venture that does not require land?

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[-] rbesfe@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 months ago

Until we reach mass deployment of electrolyzers, all of this hydrogen will be coming from natural gas. Would be interesting to do a life cycle analysis and see what percentage of the CO2 emissions associated with producing the hydrogen end up incorporated into the product.

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[+] veganpizza69@lemmy.world -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Looks like saturated fat. Don't eat it. Queue ketobro pseudoscience.

Multivariable-adjusted hazard ratios of total and cardiometabolic mortality for 1-tablespoon/day increment in cooking oil/fat consumption. Forest plots show the multivariable HRs of total (a) and cardiometabolic (b) mortality associated with 1-tablespoon/day increment in butter, margarine, corn oil, canola oil, and olive oil consumption. HRs were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, race, education, marital status, household income, smoking, alcohol, vigorous physical activity, usual activity at work, perceived health condition, history of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and cancer at baseline, Healthy Eating Index-2015, total energy intake, and consumption of remaining oils where appropriate (butter, margarine, lard, corn oil, canola oil, olive oil, and other vegetable oils). Horizontal lines represent 95% CIs

Cooking oil/fat consumption and deaths from cardiometabolic diseases and other causes: prospective analysis of 521,120 individuals https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-021-01961-2/figures/1

[-] muhyb@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago

I know an entire village who eat eggs scrambled in butter everyday and they still live ~80 years.

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