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WONDERLAND. "Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn't good to drink," Alice said to her cat" after being inverted by the mirror in the wardrobe. A prescient allusion despite the fact relatively little was known about the chemistry of enantiomeric drugs or foods at that time. (Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll). https://lnkd.in/eYuN5mG View in LinkedIn

JUNK LOBBY. "However, despite the fact that D-amino acids in foods are considered undesirable, some hold the opinion that in certain cases D-amino acids can nevertheless be beneficial to the human organism." https://lnkd.in/eNSAN8h View in LinkedIn

"ARTHUR C. CLARKE writes about a molecular mirror-image human being starving to death because his body cannot process normal sugars." Would they also be immune to microbial infections, plagues and diseases for the same reason? The Reversed Man or The Technical Error). https://lnkd.in/e2N3umX View in LinkedIn

HUMAN PROCESSED FOODS. "Foodstuffs are the most significant sources of D-amino acids, as in the process of cooking or during the various processing procedures used in the food industry dietary proteins undergo racemisation to a greater or lesser degree." https://lnkd.in/eNSAN8h View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT MARINER. "We need sugars in our diet, but if we were to eat the mirror image of these sugars, molecules that contain the same atoms but only arranged in the left-handed form, then we would starve, as our bodies can only metabolize the right-handed form." This is the basis for some calorie-free artificial sweeteners. https://lnkd.in/eqzkdcz View in LinkedIn

HUMAN PROCESSED FOODS. "D-amino acids occurring in dietary proteins originate as a consequence of technological intervention." https://lnkd.in/eNSAN8h View in LinkedIn

RECYCLED GARBAGE AS FOOD. "There has been a long history of use of poultry by-product meal and feather meal in the poultry industry worldwide. However, the wide variation in digestible AA in these by-products, which primarily depends on the processing system, is often of great concern." https://lnkd.in/eXvdd_Q View in LinkedIn

"D-AMINO ACIDS are obviously more widespread in food as would have been expected. D-amino acid levels of 1–10% of the total amino acid content are not rarely to be found. Significant values have been detected particularly in dairy products like yoghurt and cheese." https://lnkd.in/eg-FJbi View in LinkedIn

FEATHERMEAL is processed feathers fed to battery farmed chickens. The processing produces high levels of D-amino acids. We eat chickens who eat D-amino acids. Not to mention industrial waste glycerine fed to animals. We are what we eat. Oh what a pickle we find ourselves in. https://lnkd.in/eNSAN8h View in LinkedIn

SOME D-AMINO ACIDS ARE TOXIC. "Both D-serine and the mixture of L-L and L-D isomers of lysinoalanine induce histological changes in the rat kidneys." The high D forms in yogurt and fermented food are a different subject. https://lnkd.in/er-QHAk View in LinkedIn