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Tastier than its soy-laden rivals, this new wheat-based, reduced-carb pasta made its debut after Mueller's parent company partly blamed the diet for declining sales...
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...
Schaps now sells soy flour--and wheat gluten--based bread, which comes in flavors like cinnamon chip, that contains about a third of the carbs of regular loaves. The new offerings represent about 5% of sales, and many of these, he says, are to fresh customers as opposed to recipe switchers. But the reformulated loaves with the subtly spongier texture may not swing the pendulum back anytime soon. "I wouldn't eat enough to justify getting a whole loaf," said low-carb dieter Sue Hagedorn, who was buying her son an oversize cookie at a full-carb bakery down...
...Green Grants Bill, which would have given up to an additional $200 to student groups that incorporate policies such as using soy-based inks for printed materials and buying products in bulk, failed by a vote of 24-19, with two abstentions...
...Dark-chocolate addicts in Tokyo should take a hit of the 72%-cocoa signature praline at Pierre Marcolini, tel: (813) 5537 2047. If fillings are your focus, start at Ponto, tel: (813) 5414 2420, where red bean, green tea, black sesame, and soy bean powder chocolates decorated with seasonal motifs are on offer. Then head to Roppongi Hills, where Le Chocolate de H, tel: (813) 5772 0075, turns out exquisite red-pepper or gold-flecked champagne bonbons...