Modified maize...

[fliptheswitch]

Just a quickie..

Whilst reading the ingredients on a can of Baked Beans, I notice it contains "modified maize".
Could somebody please explain to me, why maize would need to be modified, as I am genuinely curious.

Thanks.

[DTCwordfan]

Its a maize starch acually whereby the starch has been broken down into a smaller molecule to assist better solubility in the bean gunk.

[sunny-dave]

I had no idea - so I wiki'd it - now I have ... rather too many ideas :-O

http://en.wikipedia.o...ty_of_modified_starch

[fliptheswitch]

Ah, interesting link, cheers dave. So it's not the same as GM food then, which is what I first thought when I saw it.

[scotman]

I don't get why so many people have a problem with GM foods. I have been eating them for some time and neither of my brains has noticed any difference.

[Morgan_s]

Scotman what even beggars belief more is that many people that smoke and drink have had the plants which produce their poisons modified to grw faster, more potent and weather proof so their poison now becomes a gm superpoison and as drink and tobacco already cause cancers, mutations and many ills the producers don't even have to do full tests on the long term damage of these gm superpoisons.

Many drinkers and smokers are now gunea pigs and don't even know it and if they contract cancer or liver disease etc.. this will just be put down to the natural course of the poison vs the human body.

Strange but very true!

[SlackAlice]

Whats smoking and drinking got to do with a can of baked beans?

[Morgan_s]

Gm beans=Gm crops=Gm crops include barley, malt hops, tobacco plants...

Quite easy, nothing wrong with these little factoids to up your knowledge slackalice, use these to wow your friends at the office x-mas party if you want.

[Old_Geezer]

With 7 billion people in the world we had better get used to breeding less rather than mess about with plant DNA in an effort to push the problem into the future, and on to our children and our children's children, whilst the over-population problem continues to grow ever larger.

Meanwhile I have no idea what modified maize is, but it is a suspicion arousing phrase.