Daily Archives: July 13, 2024

Upcycled? who is in charge of marketing at Kroger?

Rants
Kroger sells Seeded, Multigrain bread….  they call it upcycled… good grief, does that mean it is made from discarded grains, perhaps goat, chicken and pig food that is in the trough they dont want to throw away.  UPCYCLED?  I need to know a whole lot more about where this stuff comes from than what is provided on their label, especially since what goes into their “non upcycled bread” often has questionable food value”.
In particular since the word “discarded” is in the meaning of upcycled (see below), that would be important and detailed information to give the consumer, providing a chance to make a rational choice about whether the “discarded grains” came from a reasonable source.
In addition, so are the words, “of greater value”, in the definition of UPCYCLED, and the only thing that i saw (or tasted) in Kroger upcycled bread was the  greater price.  LOL. At least two dollars a loaf more expensive then what I consider the best 8 grain artisan delicious bread on the shelves…. La Brea’s 8 grain bread which here is Cincinnati is 3.99 a loaf….  Kroger upcycled (and up priced) is 5.99 a loaf, and just (in my opinion) their UPCYCLED bread tastes no different than any other kroger, spongy, bread and it still has taste of emulsifiers and dough conditioners. Out of five, this bread gets less than 1

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UPCYCLED is defined as follows:

(of discarded objects or material) reused in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original.
“upcyled furniture”

Peak finding comparison, iPeakM10-80, vs my peak finding

surfactant proteins A and D

I have been trying to find a app for finding peaks that does not depend upon previous peak height and width to influence the peaks following, and the peaks prior to extremely large peaks. I have also tried to find such a app that “understands” symmetry.

What I would like is one that has 0 “influence” and 0 “width” parameters. I find peaks consistently that are very small, and always in a similar place (which for two or more years I have named the “tiny” peak, that lies in the valley between the N term peak and the glycosylation peak(s) of surfactant protein D. I have rarely found that the peak finding apps (this includes scipy, octave, excel templates, stackoverflow) find those peaks with any regularity, in spite of the fact that they very often find “peaks” that I would never assume would be a peak.

I have used the same .csv file of two plots (each a hexamer, thus two trimers) of a dodecamer of surfactant protein D and applied several iterations of Octave iPeakM. The counts below are for peaks per trimer (the N term is included in each trimer though it is a central peak in this molecule, and is included in the count only once in each hexamer). (as an aside, it is interesting that this central N term peak often has divisions, as is seen in one plot, but not the other).

Peak widths for all the Octave plots are determine without my influence. The most botton plot, is MY ORIGINAL PLOT, from before I ever started using Octave or any other peak finding app. Thus something between iPeakM60-80 was/is the best (but not perfect) match for my own findings.  Coloration of the peaks is done for the sake of observing obvious symmetry, the N term peak (peach) the glycosylation peaks (light green) and the CRD peaks (orange) are known (and reported peaks). Four additional peaks are consistently found per trimer. Five additional peaks (total of 8, counting the N term in a trimer) in each trimer is the typical number of peaks found. (that data obtained from almost 1000 plots of trimers previously).