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Eel Ice Cream - slimming!

Sounds terrible - an ice cream made from fish, but it could make an ice cream that won't pile on the pounds as you eat.

The Times has a report that Unilever, which produces Wall's, Magnums, Carte D'Or and Ben and Jerry's ice cream has applied to the UK's Food Standards Agency for permission to use a fish protein in a range of ice creams and fruit ices. The North Atlantic Pout is an eel-like fish whose blood, using GM technology, has been made into a protein that will cut the fat and calories in ice cream.

If accepted it could be 2008 before the protein appears in products.

Despite the fact that the technology leaves no edible traces of GM material in the finished product - rather like the use of vegetarian rennet in cheese the use of a GM product has been criticized by many as a "stealth" way to introduce a GM product.

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Filed Under: Science, Non-GMO, Food Oddities, Ingredients, New Products
Tags: british isles, eel, eelpout, fish, ice cream, IceCream, oddities, unilever

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John

8-01-2006 @3:08PM John said... Calmmness everyone, it is a synthesized protein modeled from an eel. No eels are actually required to make the product. Having said that I am still not a fan of "messing with mother nature" I will continue to eat real ice cream and walk a mile afterwards.
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