I love working in the grad student computer lab. The internet is soooo fast. A pleasant change from home.
We had to learn how to extract asparagus phenolics today. Hey, all you science smarty-pantses, here's a question for you: what's the major difference between plant phenolics and animal phenolics?
My father has this horrible OhJays CD which he makes me listen to on the way to work. I think I'm going to remove my own brain with the asparagus grinder.
We had to learn how to extract asparagus phenolics today. Hey, all you science smarty-pantses, here's a question for you: what's the major difference between plant phenolics and animal phenolics?
My father has this horrible OhJays CD which he makes me listen to on the way to work. I think I'm going to remove my own brain with the asparagus grinder.
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Date: 2004-06-28 01:58 pm (UTC)"This third major class of plant pigments is a subgroup of the phenolic compounds, which include tannins. Their only known function is to give color to flowers and fruits..."
--Harold McGee: "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the KItchen," p. 151
"Rancidity.
"We have already looked at the most important cause of flavor deterioration in fats: namely, oxidation by the oxygen in the air... phenolic substances, both natural--Vitamin E, or tocopherol--and synthetic--BHT and BHA--and such spices as sage and rosemary, all inhibit oxidation."
--ibid., p. 606
But he says nothing about animal phenolics.
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Date: 2004-07-03 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-28 09:23 pm (UTC)my preference is
Date: 2004-06-28 10:13 pm (UTC)Re: my preference is
Date: 2004-06-29 12:24 pm (UTC)