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Avocados that melt in your mouth
avocados could be bred with heirloom varieties to modify the lipid mixture to be like cocoa butter lipids, thus actually meting at the mouth | |
avocados could be bred with heirloom varieties to modify the lipid mixture to be like cocoa butter lipids, thus actually meting at the mouth. avocado cubes, which are good for you, could compete, slightly, with chocolate.
ratios of lipids that cause the melt in your mouth sensation
https://en.wikipedi...g/wiki/Cocoa_butter
[beanangel, Sep 06 2016]
General Udder
http://www.strangeh...06/21/udder-snakes/
Present... hands! [whatrock, Sep 09 2016, last modified Dec 05 2016]
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This makes no sense. There are no heirloom
varieties that have significantly different lipid
contents. |
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[beany], would I be correct in guessing that avocados
have only just appeared on the menu in your
institution? |
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actually the idea is that some heirloom avocados would contain trace amounts of rarer lipids, then with breeding, these could be introduced to existing varieties of avocado. The Wikipedia link describes how melt in your mouth lipid is about a 35/35/26 blend of three different lipids. |
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It is possible that existing, mass produced avocados already produce these component lipids at different amounts, I just hedged things with the possibility that otherwise novel lipids would be available at the heirloom varieties, even if they are not at currently popular avocados. |
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now the actual social source of all this is that i tried to think of five ideas about avocados. It is mostly a gently egregious response to avocado promotion at magazines. |
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Get a different magazine. |
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So, it turns out that avocado lipids are all
intracellular anyway. |
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"So, it turns out that avocado lipids are all intracellular anyway" [mb]
first reaction, "aaauuggh!" |
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next reaction: acoustic disruption of the avocados at the processing plant could create an avocado that separates easily from the rind while disrupting the cytomembranes sufficiently to cause heightened deliciousness |
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If you go busting all the cell walls (not
"cytomembranes" - (a) that's not a word and (b)
they're plant cells and have cell walls), you will
instantly have a dead avocado on your hands. Shelf
life will be oh, maybe an hour. |
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// you will instantly have a dead avocado on your hands. // |
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Excellent - after all, no-one wants them roaming around loose. |
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After all, "avocado" has the same etymology as "abogado", which means "lawyer" in spanish. Nothing wrong with killing lawyers ... |
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What about crossing a block of chocolate with an Avogadro, and getting something that tastes delicious at a concentration of 1 in 10^23 ? |
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If you managed to combine advocados with aardvarks you
would create Aardvocados. These would be a sort of horror
fruit, and behave like venus fly traps, only instead of
consuming flies, they would go after ants. |
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// "avocado" has the same etymology as "abogado"//
Except that it doesn't. "Avocado" comes from
aguacate. |
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[marked-for-deletion] genetic engineering magic |
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Technically speaking, it's breeding rather than direct
GM. A little magic in the idea might even help. |
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True - although in my defence, these are neatly
combined in the Halfbakery help page, under the
marked-for-deletion 'magic' sub-heading: //...just
add genetics or, once people complain about the use
of genetics as magic, "selective breeding"// |
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////[marked-for-deletion] genetic engineering magic////
//Technically speaking, it's breeding rather than direct GM. A little magic in the idea might even help.// |
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Now I'm feeling sad for the genre of ideas denied an existence on the half-bakery in the Art:Performance and the (absent) Product:conjuring sections. |
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// Or even 6 x 10^23... // |
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No, that's just being greedy ... |
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// the genre of ideas denied an existence // |
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Well, no ... just because they're amenable to having a GM/Magic label slapped on doesn't mean that they're doomed to instant destruction. |
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And now we really, really want a pet Aardvocado ... could it be crossed with an Armadillo as well ? |
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I live in an avacado intensive area, and I'm happy about it just the way it is. |
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// an avacado intensive area // |
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That conjures up some very strange images ... |
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You must use a different search engine than I do. |
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"Your search - aardvocadillo - did not match any image
results. |
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Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords." |
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Seemed perfectly good to me. |
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//Try more general keywords.// |
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"Your search - General Aardvocadillo - did not match
any image results" |
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Did you try searching in Other:General ... ? |
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// Did you try searching in Other:General ... ? // |
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Nothing. But I did uncover a revealing image in
General:Udder {link} |
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