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2018-03-18, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Are there any foods that are derived from protists?
I know there are foods from the other four traditional kingdoms of organisms; There's the meat and dairy from animals, fruit and veggies from plants, mushrooms are fungi, and xanthan gum and msg are IIRC bacterially derived.
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2018-03-18, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Some fish eat plankton, and we eat fish.
Archea, I don't know about.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2018-03-19, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Yeast and other things used for brewing are protists, so pretty much anything fermented derives in part from protists (eg bread, beer and other alcohol, yogurt, miso, kimchi, etc).
Seaweed is classed as an algae, so is a protist. It's a food staple in Japan whether it's just pickled or dried and processed into nori.
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2018-03-19, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Protist is a paraphyletic term that excludes yeasts (as yeasts are fungi):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protist
It's also worth noting that green algae are considered plants under some definitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant
Brown algae (which includes many seaweeds) aren't though - they qualify as protists under some definitions - but one definition of protist excludes anything that forms tissues - which seaweeds often do.Last edited by hamishspence; 2018-03-19 at 07:52 AM.
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2018-03-19, 06:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
There's some things made with SCOBYs, which sort of qualify, but further digging indicates vinegars are made by fermentation of sugar or ethanol by acetic acid bacteria
which definitely count.Last edited by Brother Oni; 2018-03-20 at 07:49 AM. Reason: Taxonomy failure
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2018-03-20, 05:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Protists are always
prokaryoteseukaryotes, whereas bacteria areeukaryotesprokaryotes.Last edited by hamishspence; 2018-03-20 at 06:03 AM.
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2018-03-20, 05:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Uh, no, no they are not. You have those terms the wrong way around. Prokaryote means Bacteria and Archaea.
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2018-03-20, 06:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Good point - I got distracted and was looking at the "pro" bit - thought for a moment that the two terms were related and that one word was derived from the other.
The important part is that bacteria are not considered protists, so vinegar can't qualify for the OP's purpose.Last edited by hamishspence; 2018-03-20 at 06:05 AM.
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2018-03-20, 07:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Welp, you can tell who failed taxonomy during his degree.
While there's been a fair amount of work into single cell protein methods of manufacturing foodstuffs, I can't find anything that's a protist.
There's plenty of other prokaryotes though, some of which date back surprisingly far; Spirulina was used as a whole food, supposedly as far back as the Aztecs in the 16th Century.
Edit: Do medicines count as food? I wouldn't be surprised if there's a manufacturing process for monoclonal antibodies that use some critter that counts as a protist.
Edit2: Flipping autocorrect.Last edited by Brother Oni; 2018-03-20 at 07:52 AM.
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2018-03-20, 08:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Any medicines produced in yeasts, maybe?
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2018-03-20, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are there any foods derived from protists/protozoa
Aren't yeasts mostly classed with fungi?
Currently, edible brown algae seaweed seems to be the most notable "protist food".Last edited by hamishspence; 2018-03-20 at 08:35 AM.
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