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- <text id=90TT0574>
- <title>
- Mar. 05, 1990: Getting The Fat Out
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- HEALTH, Page 60
- Getting the Fat Out
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The U.S. approves a substitute
- </p>
- <p> People who love the taste of fat but hate to think about
- what it's doing to their arteries will soon have a way to feel
- less guilty at dessert time. Last week the Food and Drug
- Administration approved the sale of a creamy fat substitute
- that consists of proteins from egg whites and milk. Called
- Simplesse and made by the Nutra Sweet Co., the new product will
- be allowed only in imitation ice cream and other frozen
- desserts, but it could eventually go into many more foods,
- including mayonnaise and sour cream. Simplesse cannot withstand
- heat and so will not be used in cooked items. It has less than
- one-third as many calories as the same weight of fat.
- </p>
- <p> The new product is only the first in a series of substitutes
- being developed by such companies as Procter & Gamble,
- Frito-Lay and Best Foods. P&G is seeking approval for a
- heat-resistant, calorie-free, synthetic compound called olestra
- that can supposedly replace fat in almost any food.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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