If a toxic food is too processed, the solution now seems to be “process it more”. Just think of Cultured Oil as ultra, Ultra, ULTRA Processed Oil.
Mind you, the inventors are not even touting any “health” benefits to be better than, well, anything. They are just claiming it will be better for the Climate! Oh, and cheaper to produce.
And apparently the way to save the world from “Climate Change” (parentheses mine and intended) is to replace a product that is really bad for your health (vegetable and seed oils) with something even worse for your health (Cultured Microbial Oil).
So let’s take a look at the Patent for producing this oil. The link is to the full document, and following is some selected text from the document and my comments.
Systems and methods of making oil from microorganisms
WO WO2022178302A1 Jeff NOBBS Zero Acre Farms Inc.
Priority 2021-02-18 • Filed 2022-02-18 • Published 2022-08-25
Selected quotes and commentary:
“BACKGROUND
[0002] Vegetable oil is one of the largest agricultural products in the world and is used extensively in most all processed and fried foods. The cultivation of these oils is a leading cause of deforestation and climate change.
SUMMARY
[0003] There is a significant need to provide alternative oils that are produced in a more sustainable manner. The search of feedstocks for production of these oils commonly leads to excessive land use and clearing of biologically diverse habitats. Alternative methods have been identified to produce oils by culturing microorganisms in the presence of a carbon source. However, these methods lend themselves to high costs and low oil yield. Thus, there is a need for new oil production processes that are more cost effective and provide high oil yields comprising TAGS. The present disclosure provides for systems and methods of making oils comprising TAGS using ethanol as a carbon source. The ethanol saves production costs by providing high oil yield and production rates. Using ethanol as a carbon source also allows for the co-location of an ethanol production facility with the oil production facility. This lowers the costs of oil production even further by decreasing costs of the production and transport of the ethanol.”
Now I scanned the document for the word “Health” and by default “Healthy” and didn’t have one hit. Not one. The word “Ethanol” on the other hand, has 287 hits. “Oleaginous” had 262 hits. They are clearly more important than “Health”.
It’s pretty obvious that the ONLY purpose for this product is to lower costs on processed and fried foods. Improving health is not even an afterthought.
By the way, doesn’t Ethanol sound yummy? Yeah, THAT ethanol. The stuff that’s mixed with gasoline. Or maybe you drank it as “Everclear” in your youth. Don’t worry, though. They’ll get it all removed from the end product with their “Ultra-processing”. But this is barely the tip of the iceberg.
Here’s the simple description of the system and process:
“(a) providing an oleaginous microorganism; (b) culturing the oleaginous microorganism in a medium comprising a carbon source, wherein the carbon source comprises ethanol at greater than 50% by weight; and (c) harvesting the oil from the oleaginous microorganism”
Sound pretty simple, right? Well, the document is 16 pages long. Let’s discuss just a few things about this “simple” process.
For starters, what is an oleaginous microorganism? In this case, it’s yeast. But not just any yeast. There are several strains mentioned, that “might” be used.
And here’s an interesting statement: “In some cases, the yeast may be a recombinant yeast.” Can you say GMO?
If you weren’t sure based on the above statement, then how about this: “the yeast may be a chemically or physically induced mutant of a natural or recombinant yeast.” Yep, it’s GMO all right.
Now just what are these GMO yeasts “cultured” with? Here’s their list:
“These sources can be, for example, starch, ethanol, industrial ethanol, acetic acid, glucose, fructose, sucrose, raffmose, molasses, bagasse, xylose, glycerol, methanol, synthesis gas, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, formic acid, cellulose hydrolysates, and industrial, agricultural, food, and municipal organic wastes.”
Wow. What a list. Ending with “industrial, agricultural, food, and municipal organic wastes”. Again, yummy!
Also:
“In some embodiments, the carbon source may include one or more sugars. The sugar may be a 5-carbon sugar. The sugar may be a 6-carbon sugar. The sugar may be a monosaccharide. The sugar may be a disaccharides. The sugar may be a mixture of different sugars. The sugar may be selected from, for example, glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, maltodextrin, etc. The carbon source may include one or more non-sugar carbon sources. The non-sugar carbon sources may be selected from starch, glycerol, cellulosic biomass, methane, methanol, syn gas, or other suitable carbon sources known in the art, etc,”
But that’s not the worst of it. Fermentation of yeast and the list of sources above most likely creates neurotoxins in the form of Manufactured free Glutamates (MfG’s).
You can read about them here: Truthinlabeling.org
Several are already on the list of known neurotoxins. And we really need to get these out of our food. Period.
Then there are various other chemicals used “as needed”, such as acetic acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, ammonium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, ammonia, etc.
Finally, the “harvesting” of the oil: They list several methods and combinations of methods such as enzymatic hydrolysis, centrifuging the oil from the medium, or a lysis method comprising an enzymatic, physical, or chemical procedure. Enzymes can include “Trichodermi reesei or Arthrobacter leuteus, and can contain, potentially amongst others, b-1,3 glucanase and b-1 ,3-glucan laminaripentao-hydrolase activities, which hydrolyze glucose polymers at the P-l,3-glucan linkages. Other enzymes that may be used include mannanase, cellulase, b-glucosidase, amylase, invertase, chitinase, protease, and the like.”
I plan to avoid this oil like the Plague that it is. But if you’re not convinced yet, please take a look at this similar product:
2017-01-25 Process for biodiesel production from a yeast strain EP2494029B1
Bon Appetite!