Omega 3

[Steve]

Why must the food industry go through fads of adding a certain additive to food and advertising it all over the packaging?

And how the hell do they add omega 3 to bread???

My shop now sells Omega 3 fish fingers! I thought Omega 3 was naturally found in fish! So why add more???

And how did we all cope without all this Omega 3 flying about everywhere? The way they bang on about it, you'd think nothing else mattered.

 

[tim west]

Omega 3 is the very essense of life, without it we would walk along the street and bits would fall off of us.

The actual words "Omega 3" are designed to give an inner feeling of wellbeing and if chanted regularly through the day, will work to give you a good Karma.

All together now "Omega 3 for me, Omega 3 for me"

 

[Chud]

Don't ask me why but apparently studies have been carried out that show that Omega 3 only really works when present in food it occurs naturally in e.g. oily fish etc. - putting it in other foods, bread, spreads, cheese strings, cola, beer (just wait!) has little or no benefit.

Also there are different types of omega 3 - some better than others - most of the ones you find as additives are the low benefit ones...

 

[^woody^]

I would not mind if it was an Omega Seamaster in my loaf!

 

[tim west]

I would not mind if it was an Omega Seamaster in my loaf!

just hope theres not any seamen with it

 

[joe-90]

It amazes me that they are still able to put on the package,"Full of goodness"

What's goodness for goodness sake?

 

[tim west]

Thats right! fill it full of goodness and there's no room for the product.

 

[AndersonC]

Typical "jump on the bandwagon" way that many industries operate. There is that much crap written on the labels and outer packaging of food these days that I never even bother reading it. I know what is good and bad for you and that's that. I don't need a "traffic light" indicator of how much salt and fibre there is in a particular food item.

Like many other industries, the food industry just thinks we are all morons and will buy items just because it has all this "flavour of the month" waffle written on it. (pun intended of course)

 

[tim west]

Typical "jump on the bandwagon" way that many industries operate. There is that much rubbish written on the labels and outer packaging of food these days that I never even bother reading it.

How do you know what you are buying? you could be having shoe polish for dinner if you're not careful!

 

[AndersonC]

Might explain the taste of some of it these days....

 

[^woody^]

Just wait for when they start printing the carbon footprint and ozone depletion factor etc, just so you know that no matter how good for you the product is, by buying it you have helped to condemn the planet to certain destruction

 

[Steve]

Just wait for when they start printing the carbon footprint and ozone depletion factor etc, just so you know that no matter how good for you the product is, by buying it you have helped to condemn the planet to certain destruction

I had a bag of crisps yesterday that was reponsible for 50 grams of CO2 emissions. But where do they finish measuring that? At the back door of the shop? At the back door of the distribution centre? At the factory? Even thats confusing.

 

[megawatt]

So what happened to Omega 1 and Omega 2?

 

[Shytalkz]

Vauxhall copyrighted them

 

[^woody^]

Does too much turn you into an Omega Man, and mean you have to avoid the marauding albinos?