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...center of all the attention is a class of compounds known as sucrose polyester (SPE). Although that may sound like a new material for leisure suits, SPE looks and tastes like vegetable oil but passes through the body without entering the bloodstream. Research at the University of Cincinnati appears to show that it can reduce a person's existing cholesterol levels. It supposedly satisfies what market researchers call the "mouth-feel" requirement that eludes so many yucky-tasting diet-oriented products. P&G, which has tested olestra on more than 1,800 people in the past 15 years, contends that...
Despite extensive study, there is no assurance that unexpected side effects of olestra and other forms of SPE will not appear if the compounds go into wide use. Moreover, skeptics fear that many dieters will fill up on SPE-laden snacks and not eat enough natural foods with essential vitamins and other nutrients...
...allure of SPE, though, makes the mind boggle -- and the mouth water. Industry watchers suggest that someday supermarkets might stock extra-low- calorie cookies, diet doughnuts and even fat-free ice cream. Says P&G Spokesman Donald Tassone: "We have done a lot of testing on different & foods." If research produces food that seems sinful but is palatable to waistline watchers, then P&G, and any other companies that follow its lead, should have no trouble fattening their bottom lines...
...picked up his pretty good English, and Tony, a Cuban washed ashore in the 1980 wave of 125,000 refugees, smiles up at them roguishly and says, "My father ta'e me to the movies. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, I learn how to spe' from those guys. I li'e those guys." To each his own American dream. Tony (Al Pacino) and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) have different takes on that vision. Manny has a modest, ranch-house version: "I'd like my own blue jeans with my name written...
...always on its way. And at Procter & Gamble right now they are talking about a new substance that can create a creamy-rich milkshake or a buttery spread that is not the least bit fattening. It is a zero-calorie dead ringer for dietary fat called sucrose polyester (SPE), and last week researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center reported SPE's first successful test. The compound contains eight fatty acids instead of the three that make up ordinary fats. As a result, digestive enzymes cannot break it down, and it passes unaltered out of the body...