Word: starches
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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...
...real draw is the tapioca pearls,” said Ying Ying Ma, the co-owner of the Lollicup Tea franchise, referring to the tapioca starch that comes from yuca plants and will be added...
...World Championships in Munich two years ago, athletes competed in five events: forestry, rock-wall, aquatics, vehicular and freestyle. With the tilted gaze of a visionary, Steam has eyes on the 2008 Olympics: ?If they can have synchronized swimming, why can?t they have Extreme Ironing?? His friend, Matthew ?Starch? Patrick, remains skeptical: ?I wouldn?t want to see people taking performance-enhancing drugs so they could somehow iron better.? If the Extreme Ironers never gets to compete in Beijing, they certainly medaled in Geist?s preferred sport: extreme irony...
Good fats do more than help protect the heart. They also seem to delay hunger pangs. "People on these high-starch, low-fat diets are often hungry soon after they eat. They would be more satisfied eating nuts or a salad with a full-fat dressing," says Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and author of Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (Fireside; 2001). "And longer-term studies are showing that people tend to be able to control their weight better over the long run on a moderate or higher...
...basic ingredients in a lot of sweet snacks are sugar, trans fats and refined starch, all fattening and low in nutrition--but also so cheap that it costs almost nothing to double the size of a product. You may think that getting 12 more ounces for only half the price is a real steal, but it sure is no dietary bargain...