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...Frito-Lay has unveiled Tostitos and Doritos Edge, in which soy protein is used in place of starch to lower the chips' carb count. Unilever has a Carb Options line of 32 products that include reformulated Ragu sauce, Wish-Bone salad dressing and Lipton tea with fewer carbs. Coors has begun marketing its new low-carb Aspen Edge to compete with Michelob Ultra. "The mainstream food and beverage manufacturers have finally made low carb a priority," says Suzanna Prong Eygabroat, an analyst at market-research firm Productscan Online...
TRANS FAT: 0 grams SATURATED FAT: 1.5 g Frito-Lay Cheetos...
TRANS FAT: 0 grams SATURATED FAT: 1 g Frito-Lay Doritos...
Manufacturers seemed braced for the move. Even before the ruling, food giant Kraft announced it was reducing trans-fat levels in many products. Last year McDonald's said it would do the same with its French fries, though it has yet to make the change. Frito-Lay already lists trans fats on its products; others are likely to follow...
...Frito-Lay's new products stack up? The whole line is cooked in trans fat--free oils, a big health benefit over many other snack foods, because trans fats raise the level of LDL, the "bad cholesterol." And the products are slightly lower in ordinary fat. Regular Tostitos and Natural Tostitos both have 140 calories a serving, but the natural chips have only 50 calories from fat, while the traditional ones have 70. And our tasters found that the flavor of the new products matched or sometimes even surpassed that of the traditional products. The Cheetos Natural White Cheddar Puffs...