And what do you think of Cultured Oil, an edible fat produced using microbes in a vat by a US company, Zero Acres Farms? It appears to be a useful culinary oil but as we all know, the devil is in the details. https://www.zeroacre.com/
Their website offers lots of information about “linoleic acid” which I don’t understand well. Is that also known as ALA?
Let’s start off by saying that there are 3 types of monounsaturated fatty acids in the diet: Omegas 3, 6 and 9.
Meaning that there is one carbon-carbon double bond either between the 3rd and 4th, 6th and 7th, or 9th and 10th carbon atoms on the fatty acid chain.
Linoleic acid is an omega-6 fatty acid. We’ve got an overabundance of it in processed foods. Too much of it is pro-inflammatory.
If you look at the nutritional labels on the Zero Acre oil, you will see that it contains overwhelmingly (>90%) oleic acid, an omega-9 that doesn’t really do much…
But it’s nice to market the product as being “heart healthy” and “lots of monounsaturated fat”, no? 😂
A very useful comment. The ratio of omega 6 and 3 gets lots of attention lately. Nobody talks about Omega 9. Interesting. The company’s novel production scheme offers many benefits, if we can coax a healthy fat from the effort. In a world facing an agricultural crisis knowing how to produce an essential daily product safely without destroying vast tracts of prime farmland to do it is a major advancement. They’ve recently signed a deal with some huge outfit and will ramp up production. One to watch, maybe.
You’ve answered a question, again, that has been on my list of things I need to know for a while now. Thank you. The previous instance when you just happened to know why/how the same company distills their product and mixes free tocopherols (vitamin e) with it prior to bottling. Both bits of knowledge will inform a piece I am writing about how Zero Acres’ process replicates the success of a chemist who produced another fat, liquid hydrocarbons in fact, in a lab using microbes and carbonates in the late 1970’s. As you might imagine, being able to produce pure fuels that require neither extraction nor refinement to use is a bit of a game changer. More on that soon. You have been very helpful in this inquiry of mine. Much appreciated
And what do you think of Cultured Oil, an edible fat produced using microbes in a vat by a US company, Zero Acres Farms? It appears to be a useful culinary oil but as we all know, the devil is in the details. https://www.zeroacre.com/
Their website offers lots of information about “linoleic acid” which I don’t understand well. Is that also known as ALA?
The devil is always in the details 😂
Let’s start off by saying that there are 3 types of monounsaturated fatty acids in the diet: Omegas 3, 6 and 9.
Meaning that there is one carbon-carbon double bond either between the 3rd and 4th, 6th and 7th, or 9th and 10th carbon atoms on the fatty acid chain.
Linoleic acid is an omega-6 fatty acid. We’ve got an overabundance of it in processed foods. Too much of it is pro-inflammatory.
If you look at the nutritional labels on the Zero Acre oil, you will see that it contains overwhelmingly (>90%) oleic acid, an omega-9 that doesn’t really do much…
But it’s nice to market the product as being “heart healthy” and “lots of monounsaturated fat”, no? 😂
A very useful comment. The ratio of omega 6 and 3 gets lots of attention lately. Nobody talks about Omega 9. Interesting. The company’s novel production scheme offers many benefits, if we can coax a healthy fat from the effort. In a world facing an agricultural crisis knowing how to produce an essential daily product safely without destroying vast tracts of prime farmland to do it is a major advancement. They’ve recently signed a deal with some huge outfit and will ramp up production. One to watch, maybe.
The other issue to consider is that the body itself can produce omega-9s.
Omega-3s, on the other hand, cannot be produced in the body.
You’ve answered a question, again, that has been on my list of things I need to know for a while now. Thank you. The previous instance when you just happened to know why/how the same company distills their product and mixes free tocopherols (vitamin e) with it prior to bottling. Both bits of knowledge will inform a piece I am writing about how Zero Acres’ process replicates the success of a chemist who produced another fat, liquid hydrocarbons in fact, in a lab using microbes and carbonates in the late 1970’s. As you might imagine, being able to produce pure fuels that require neither extraction nor refinement to use is a bit of a game changer. More on that soon. You have been very helpful in this inquiry of mine. Much appreciated