Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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wikipedia is my anti-study(i tend to look up all sorts of junk, mainly food, superheroes, bball players):

you can indirectly test whether or not you are lactose intolerant by drinking two cups of milk on an empty stomach. then seeing what happens in the next following hours. i passed :D

i didn't need to look up lactose intolerance to understand the basics of it; i've taken enough basic food science classses to know it; it is actually not "normal" to be able to drink milk beyond childhood; lactase, the enzyme which is responsible for digesting lactose is at its highest when as a baby, b/c you need to be able to drink breast milk as your main source of food. once you are past that though, the need diminishes. in addition, when you don't continuously consume food products with lactose, your body gets the sense that it does not need to produce lactase anymore, and thus production weans(this is partially why i still drink milk and a lot of it each day; not only because i know it's healthy and good for your height and bones and stuff, but because i don't think i have a genetic change owing up to lactose tolerance, so i detest that day where i might become lactose intolerant because i don't ever drink milk anymore). in some people, there is a genetic change which allows them to consume lactose regardless of how old they are; people who are able to consistently consume lactose regardless of time tend to be those which have economically had cows around them, thus needing to use milk as a dietary staple; mainly the europeans. asians on the other hand, have never had cows around, and thus, never drank milk as a staple.
i'll consider myself lucky in that sense where i can still consume 1% milk without needing to rush to the bathroom.
fyi, i could never drink lactaid; i tried it and it was just too sweet(b/c the lactose sugar is broken down into the basic two sugars, hence it tastes sweeter); how in the world do people like this?

marmalade is added to yogurt, not fresh fruit; it preserves its life longer.
my mom used to tell me to eat more yogurt because "there's some europeans that live very long lives, and the reason they do is supposedly because they eat yogurt." those europeans are the bulgarians. yogurt also MUST contain live and active cultures, basically bacteria. however, frozen yogurt may or may not contain live and active cultures. that doesn't mean it's not yogurt, just that the live and active cultures may have been killed. though american-style yogurt has gelatin added to it, yogurt is supposed to naturally have a gellish appearance and structure.

cheddar is an english cheese(used to think it was a mexican cheese; cheddar is by far my favorite cheese; goes on anything cheese is good on mostly)
i used to think "american cheese" was just something kraft made up to be able to sell their Singles; it does exist, but only a few companies make it; kraft singles for instance; it is really just a combo of kolby(another american cheese) with cheddar. i dunno if that's legit; that's like saying laughing cow cheese is another type of cheese because it mixes swiss with cheddar. fyi, though i like cheese, i never really liked kraft singles; if you tried to eat them straight up, they had a weird odor and taste.
mozerella is formed by spinning the curds(hence the round ball). it's actually supposed to be a lot wetter than the mozarella you buy in stores.
cottage cheese is rediculously healthy compared to other forms of cheese; little fat, little cholesterol, high protein, etc. cottage cheese is in essence curds without processing. i guess the processing somehow adds other stuff to it. also not stated in wikipedia but in the encyclopedia i had at home: cottage cheese(along with cream cheese) is one of the few types of cheeses that came out of america; while america doesn't seem to have invented as many unique cheeses compared to the european nations, it is the nation that produces the largest amounts of cheese. i never really ate cottage cheese with anything; just ate it straight up, not fruit topping, not on yogurt.

mars replaced by snickers almond; they used to sell a mars candy bar when i was a kid; it didn't go anywhere, just changed its name. but i distinctly remember it not having chocolate coating, but i could be wrong.

3 musketeers used to be a neopolitan flavor as opposed to a chocolate nougat inside; it was also a lot larger. explains why it was called 3 musketeers. guess some things really are better in the old days. kinda like how cup o' noodles used to have a LOT more stuff in their noodles, according to my mom; they put eggs in there.

also not found on wikipedia, but i remember: 7up cherry bubble gum used to exist, now it doesn't; they were rectangular boxes of cherry gum with a gellish fruit syrup in the middle

(in retrospect, i realize i really like learning weird facts and science about food; i should've double-majored in genetics and food science when i just entered college, and taken bioinformatics; but then again, hindsight is 20/20, and that's why we live in a temporal world; not everything we want to accomplish and possess will be done)

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