Would You Eat Food Made From Animal Feed?
SodaHead Food
2012/07/30 02:58:00
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Health advocates are always looking for special ingredients to make meals more nutritious. But will they be able to convince Americans to eat food made from animal feed? Yes, you read that right: animal feed.
Apparently, the stuff left over from turning corn into fuel ethanol makes a very healthy flour substitute. It’s protein-packed and full of fiber. Sounds great, right? There are just a few catches. It smells “like a saloon.” On it’s own it “tastes like coarse sawdust.” And people just can’t get over the fact that it’s most often fed to cows and pigs.
Padu Krishnan, a food scientist and professor at South Dakota State University, admits that dried distillers’ grain (or DDG) faces a “barrier of perception.” But he’s doing his best to convince people to give it a try. For nearly 20 years he’s been refining recipes and slipping small amounts of DDG into cookies, pizza dough, and bread, which he then feeds to students, friends, and family members. And according to his test subjects, when combined with other ingredients, you can hardly taste it.
Still, Jacquelynn O'Palka, chair of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, believes that DDG won’t go mainstream without the help of a celebrity. "You clearly would need to get a Hollywood star or a sports figure, someone really wonderful, to wolf down DDG cookies," she said.
So, what about you SodaHeads? Would you eat food made from animal feed?
Apparently, the stuff left over from turning corn into fuel ethanol makes a very healthy flour substitute. It’s protein-packed and full of fiber. Sounds great, right? There are just a few catches. It smells “like a saloon.” On it’s own it “tastes like coarse sawdust.” And people just can’t get over the fact that it’s most often fed to cows and pigs.
Padu Krishnan, a food scientist and professor at South Dakota State University, admits that dried distillers’ grain (or DDG) faces a “barrier of perception.” But he’s doing his best to convince people to give it a try. For nearly 20 years he’s been refining recipes and slipping small amounts of DDG into cookies, pizza dough, and bread, which he then feeds to students, friends, and family members. And according to his test subjects, when combined with other ingredients, you can hardly taste it.
Still, Jacquelynn O'Palka, chair of the department of nutrition and dietetics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, believes that DDG won’t go mainstream without the help of a celebrity. "You clearly would need to get a Hollywood star or a sports figure, someone really wonderful, to wolf down DDG cookies," she said.
So, what about you SodaHeads? Would you eat food made from animal feed?
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Top Opinion
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Christopher Kirchen 2012/07/30 12:47:06Yes
+6I don't know why not; the feed in your picture there is just grain, and bread and other things are made with all sorts of grains.
The feed grain to the cow and I eat the cow. Simple
The fatties will continue to kill themselves with a knife and fork; so be it.
To each his own...
(horsegram = a pulse traditionally fed to horses)
But if we are talking replacing tonight's meat-lovers Pizza... NO F-ing Way!
People use the "spent" grains from making beer and ale to make very delicious, nutritious breads.
I am in!
Alfalfa (lucerne)
Barley
Birdsfoot trefoil
Brassica spp.
Kale
Rapeseed (canola)
Rutabaga (swede)
Turnip
Clover
Alsike clover
Red clover
Subterranean clover
White clover
Grass
Bermuda grass
Brome
False oat grass
Fescue
Heath grass
Meadow grasses (from naturally mixed grassland swards)
Orchard grass
Ryegrass
Timothy-grass
Corn (maize)
Millet
Oats
Sorghum
Soybeans
Trees (pollard tree shoots for "tree-hay")
Wheat
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How many of the above do YOU regularly eat?
Not to mention = seaweed, yeast, bran... etc etc..
It wouldn't be my first choice, but I'd definitely eat it if I had to. If I REALLY had to, I'd eat almost anything.