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Featured Stories
Learn interesting facts about gelatin and
how some of our customers are using our products
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Woman Business Founder a
Chilling Success |
Cindy King
considers herself a regular woman with an unusual idea. After
feeling like she couldn't compete with some of the great parties in
her family, and watching a story on tv about ice sculptures, she
asked her husband, "Why doesn't anyone make something like that
for people at home?" And thus, her company was born. She makes
molds for ice sculptures and gelatin desserts. Sometimes people also
make chocolates, candles or stepping stones with them. Great
Lakes Gelatin congratulates this entrepreneur and is proud
to supply any of her customers with our product. We have free
recipes available to you. You can learn more by visiting her site
www.sculpturesinice.com. |
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Great Lakes Gelatin
Sponsors Recipe Contest |
Great Lakes Gelatin is proud to sponsor the mom-mom recipe contest.
The top three winners were announced and will receive prizes
including our gelatin.
Just a reminder that all of the recipes
that require flavored packages of gelatin can easily be done with
our gelatin and fruit juice. Using your own ingredients makes it a
fresher, more nutritious version of the box recipes and it won't
contain as many preservatives.
Click here to learn more about the contest
and the winners:
www.mom-mom.com/gelatin_contest_recipes.htm
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Palau Aquarium Uses Great
Lakes Gelatin |
Did
you know that Great Lakes Gelatin is used by the Palau Aquarium?
You may be asking, "Where is Palau?" and "How are they using it?"
Palau is in the Western Pacific in the
Caroline Islands in Micronesia. Palau lies 550 miles to the
east of the Philippines, 410 miles to the north of Papua New Guinea
and 815 miles to the southwest of Guam.
The Palau International Research Center
just opened in the beginning of 2001, and is a new center for coral
reef research. The main areas of study will be towards reef
management, reef ecosystems and a better overall understanding of
reefs in Micronesia. Other area island nations will send their
reef data so that a picture of reef health of the entire area can be
developed. They use gelatin to bind together the food for the
fish.
The second part of the facility is a public
aquarium consisting of 4 outside ponds depicting mangroves, sea
grass beds, inner reef and reef crest environments. There are
inside tanks depicting various environments including coral
propagation.
Learn about the aquarium and Palau by
visiting them on the web at
www.picrc.org
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BSE in the News |
BSE has
been in the headlines lately, and we want to clarify some mis-information.
BSE, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, is also known as mad cow
disease. It has been found in cattle in Europe.
Our gelatin is
made from either pork skin or cow hides. Most people purchase our
pork gelatin, indicated by the word porcine on the label. For the
percentage of you that have our Kosher product, made from cow hides,
it is indicated by the word Kosher on the front of the can. The
prion (infected protein) has never been found in the cattle hide,
blood, or meat. Furthermore, none of the gelatin we make comes from
any animals outside the US where BSE has occurred. The FDA has
assured all consumers that gelatin is completely safe to eat. Check
out their web site at www.fda.gov
for more information. They have an entire area dedicated to this
topic. |
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Ball State U Studies
Gelatin and Joint Relief |
Ball State University studied athletes given gelatin. "The results
indicated that the (supplement) group reduced athletes’ joint pains
and stiffness significantly in all aspects. In the placebo group,
there was no improvement," says David Pearson of Ball State’s Human
Performance Laboratory.
"The reason gelatin
appears to be effective in joint health is because it is composed of
two amino acids in very high amounts, which are the building blocks
for cartilage. When we consume the gelatin, the two amino
acid-building blocks enter the blood stream, enter the joint space,
and positively affect the health of the cartilage."
"Unfortunately, the
product will not work with every type of knee pain or arthritis.
Rheumatoid arthritis would not be affected by the supplement because
typically there is no cartilage left."
"If you’re suffering
from ongoing joint discomfort and you’re not getting total relief
from therapy or medications, there is certainly no harm in trying
the supplement," he concludes. |
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