{"id":88596,"date":"2019-03-12T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/gene-edited-food-quietly-arrives-in-restaurant-cooking-oil"},"modified":"2019-03-12T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:44:40","slug":"gene-edited-food-quietly-arrives-in-restaurant-cooking-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/gene-edited-food-quietly-arrives-in-restaurant-cooking-oil","title":{"rendered":"Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-edited-food-quietly-arrives-in-restaurant-cooking-oil2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That\u2019s according to the company making the oil, which says it\u2019s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Calyxt said it can\u2019t reveal its first customer for competitive reasons, but CEO Jim Blome said the oil is \u201cin use and being eaten.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota-based company is hoping the announcement will encourage the food industry\u2019s interest in the oil, which it says has no trans fats and a longer shelf life than other soybean oils. Whether demand builds remains to be seen, but the oil\u2019s transition into the food supply signals gene editing\u2019s potential to alter foods without the controversy of conventional GMOs, or genetically modified organisms.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/17f0f799580a483fbd1b2d69bcf2ba18\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/17f0f799580a483fbd1b2d69bcf2ba18<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That\u2019s according to the company making the oil, which says it\u2019s the first commercial use of a gene-edited food in the U.S. Calyxt said it can\u2019t reveal its first customer for competitive reasons, but CEO Jim [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}