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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by pfdietz on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:20PM (#40127800)
The problem as I understand it with bacteria as food is they have too much nucleic acid. When eaten this produces uric acid (from the purines) and the fear is an excess of that could lead to gout and kidney stones.
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by bilsbie on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:35PM (#40127866)
Why isn’t this a problem with cheese or yogurt?
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by foobar1962 on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:46PM (#40128257)
Cheese can be a problem for gout; yoghurt not so much because it isn't as protein dense. The "biggies" for gout are seafood, red meat and turkey, red wine and beer (generally best to avoid alcohol) and legumes. I've also found that high sugar diets are bad including fresh fruit and juices.
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by Ferret7446 on Monday April 22, 2024 @11:45PM (#40128246)
I imagine that cheese and yogurt are significantly less than 100% bacteria. I couldn't find any easy numbers, but if I had to guess, it's less than 10% by mass for cheese.
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by jessriedel on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:27PM (#40127833)
Wouldn’t you do a lot of processing to anything made out of bacteria? Are nucleic acids hard to remove?
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by pfdietz on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @11:49PM (#40140337)
NileRed extracts DNA from strawberries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGmDBZyqY8
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Re:Protein made from a microorganism that can be cultivated ... by gs17 on Thursday April 25, 2024 @01:36PM (#40160614)
It might be like the biofuel from C. necator where it expels the output into the surrounding fluid so it can be harvested without the bacteria needing to be most of the final product. Although, they do mention "macronutrient composition of the cells" so maybe it is the whole bacteria included.
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