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An
old mot from Moscow was entitled to the “Inconsolable humorist “: A
humorist appears inside a shop of seeds and asks: “Do you have rice?”
“Surely!” they answer. “You, at least,” he whispers tossing his head
and drawing back. It's a gag very few laughing stimulating, as very
few rice there is in the so advertised “rice oils “ a fresh fashion,
launched by conferences and press releases, articles and corresponding
advertising. Maybe it's so “alternative”, it's so “natural”, it's so
“oriental chic”, maybe it's so “new age”, of so an appealing taste of
medical-healthy, it maybe does everything you want, make of it all what
you want. For me it's enough that it DOES NOT COME FROM RICE, if for
'rice' you mean as the 99,999999 per cent people means, the grains of
rice. No:
the oil rice is derived - by thermo-chemical processes such to make
all the macrobiotics, worthy of respect, wrinkle their nose - from the
trash of rice winnowing that is from the grains' skin.
An
overview (anthological) of the scientific-medical articles describing
its preparation will allow a more careful information and meditation.
This way we learn that: “the rice oil (for nourishment and cosmetics)
is the result of a technology set out in Japan in the seventies: after
separating the caryopsis, husk is exposed for few minutes to a high
temperature (95°-105° C) in order to deactivate the enzymes that provoke
the degradation of the fat acids; later they are dried till reaching
6-7 per cent dump.
So they go on pressing its and subjecting to rectification to ensure
to the rice oil the highest purity, indispensable requirement for a
functional food”. “Make smoke!”: that's the order of the ancient steam
navy, gave to the to stokers down in the engine room, so to achieve
the “smoke curtains “ get thicker and get confused this way the enemy
that by manoeuvring the draught of the funnels. Here the predestined
to be leaded astray seems to be just the consumer. With whom we deal
here, because they are the supporters of the rice oil to give us space,
by destining with clear letters their product to “patients” and “pharmacies”
because it's a “system that makes therapy “. So it deals fully with
whom deals with the “Health of the Health system “. Indeed we read in
the pages of the “Information reserved to physicians “, that the RICE
OIL plays an effective therapeutic role by introducing naturally it
in the patient's nourishment habits “.
We leave to the acumen of the reader the analysis of the ambiguous meaning
of this smoky “naturally” put wisely here. But now let's try to lift
the semantic smoke at least, that is of little words and great words
threw out just to make smoke. “Functional food” is used for “the foods
that have natural active ingredients having concrete pharmaco-dinamic
properties and documented preventive effects and/or therapeutic effects
for certain pathologies “.
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