Word: fritos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still accounts for only 2.3% of all oils consumed in the U.S. Four years ago, Procter & Gamble converted its Puritan cooking-oil line from a soy-sunflower blend to 100% canola. Earlier this year Dean Foods, a Virginia-based company, rolled out a margarine rich in canola. Next year Frito-Lay plans to introduce SunChips, corn chips fried in canola oil. This surge of interest has caused a boomlet in Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana, where growers are starting to plant acreage in the 5-ft., yellow-flowering rapeseed plants from which canola oil is derived...
...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...