Re:Scientists studying how fiber influences the microbiome
by bagacrap on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:10PM
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Given that the rest of the sentence refers to sugar and protein, he probably means fat. Non-native speaker and/or mildly inaccurate translation. Lard isn't really worse for you than other fats anyway, so I'm not sure why he'd focus on that.
Re:Scientists studying how fiber influences the microbiome
by oldcynic on Saturday March 03, 2018 @06:43PM
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Which is a shame really as the tastiest chips are fried in lard, or better still, beef dripping. Not very accommodating to vegans however.
Re:Scientists studying how fiber influences the microbiome
by IntronExon on Saturday March 03, 2018 @08:20PM
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The most common food other than fries McDonalds is known for would be hamburgers. I’m guessing that’s what they’re thinking of as a source of animal fat. Possibly he meant tallow, as in beef tallow, which is also what they used to fry their fries in. Now they use an additive to replace the flavor, while using vegetable oil.
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-...
It wouldn’t shock me to hear someone referring to tallow as lard.
> “It’s basically what you’d get at McDonald’s,” said Dr. Bäckhed said. “A lot of lard, a lot of sugar, and twenty percent protein.”
As far as I can tell, McDonald's stopped frying their french fries in lard back in 1990 and other products before then. (See http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-24/business/90030... .)
Fast food has plenty of nutrition problems, but it doesn't seem helpful to make up ones that don't actually exist.
Maybe he just used the wrong word since he's from Sweden, though.