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Casein is also used as an artist's medium. Anyone having expertise about this, please inform us.
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[edit] non-animal derived synthesis
if anyone has any info on how it may be synthesized from non-animal sources, please post, or contribute. this would make a very interesting and relevant addition.
The section about parents of autistic children and casein-free diets is obviously a copy/paste from some unreferenced article. Noone knows who "Greg" is. I think it should be removed and replaced with something more relevant. Matt dinsmore 01:06, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
- Fix it; don't censor it.
- The wholesale deletion of the reference to casein's possible relationship to autism (and other behavioral disorders) is inexcusable. Good editors fix, not censor. A {{Fact}} tag would have been far more appropriate than removing all reference to the entire issue from the article. --Kaz 01:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Does the following sentence from the article make sense to anybody?? "When coagulated protein and casein for the coagulated protein." It completely baffles me...
[edit] Casein plastic
Background: When I was a child, a creamery close to our home had a small casein "factory" in the rear. The casein product was dried in ovens at a temperature of about 125 degrees and shipped, and the whey was fed to pigs that the owner raised on a nearby farm.
At age 18, I enlisted in the Marines and was issued a pair of shower shoes with soles made of casein plastic. This was 1948. I have used those shower shoes virtually continually since then (even though I had to replace the bindings) and the soles, though worn but not cracked or broken, are just as pliable as when I first got them. The casein plastic was definitely superior to the plastics manufactured today.
Lloyd Martinson
lwmarthad@comcast.net
---Please, add international phonetic pronunciation--
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- Perhaps it should still be noted that casein could only produce an addiction-like response if people who suffered from it had injected half-digested cheese into their brains. --89.212.75.6 20:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
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- The use of the word 'premature'is POV as it presupposes that at some stage (when the research has 'matured') then casein free diets will be useful. NPOV would state that claims that a link exists between casein and autism have been unsubstantiated. It isn't that the research hasn't matured, its that the claims appear to be unfounded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.215.238 (talk) 06:32, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Casein Development
"Casein was developed as a safe protein based binder to be used in glues for children. It was among the first attempts at making a non-toxic (edible) glues for use by young children" - can anyone substantiate this?? I'm searching for sources. Nicholas SL Smith 03:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Casein Research
- Types of Casein (Beta (A1, A2, A3?), Kappa)
- Research on Beta Casein http://betacasein.org/index.php/pi_pageid/95 -- is this a reliable site? --71.175.49.61 (talk) 20:36, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Unclearity
"It does this because casein from the milk binds to the molecules in tea that cause the arteries to relax, especially a catechin molecule called EGCG." - Does it mean that adding milk causes the arteries to relax, or does it mean that it disables it? Though the context is that casein disables the good effects of tea, its not clear if it's neutralizing the effect or doing something bad, if the context wrongly is out of context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.251.183.150 (talk) 15:51, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
