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...fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That's because Chef Folse had cooked it not with conventional oil but rather with an experimental--and as yet unapproved--synthetic oil called olestra. Olestra is the stealth missile of fat molecules; it passes through the gastrointestinal tract without being digested or absorbed. As far as the human body is concerned, olestra is fat-free...
...advisory panel said Olestra, a fat substitute that has taken Procter & Gamble 25 years to develop, is probably safe for consumption in goodies like snacks. Olestra has the cooking capabilities and taste of the real thing, but because its molecules are so large, it passes through the body without being digested. Critics say it depletes the body of nutrients and causes diarrhea...
...research group that blew the whistle on the unhealthy fat content of Chinese food and movie popcorn has now reported that olestra, a nonfattening fat substitute, is unsafe for consumption. The group says olestra leaches the body of essential vitamins, such as A, D and K. Proctor & Gamble, olestra's creator, has proposed fortifying it with the vitamins. The Food and Drug Administration will hold hearings in November on whether olestra is safe for use in snack foods...
...OLESTRA Killjoy consumer group says faux fat could be harmful to your health...
...sounded too good to be true, and it probably was. The Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the organization that brought us the evils of Chinese food and movie house popcorn -- claimed Wednesday that the fat substitute olestra is too dangerous to be put into the nation's potato chips. "The basic problem is that there isn't enough evidence that this product is safe," says TIME's Alice Park. "Olestra seems to deplete the body of essential vitamins, and its use raises some questions about other health risks that we need to know the answers to before...