Fats and Fat Replacers: Balancing the Health Benefits

摘要

Consumers are receiving mixed messages about fat substitutes like olestra, trans fatty acids, and even the percentage of fat they should have in their diets. An attempt to clear up these messages for consumers was one goal of a roundtable of food technologists, nutritionists, health experts, and the media held in Chicago, August 8,1996 sponsored by the International Pood Information Council. Consumers can only make proper food choices when they have the right information, and one of the goals of the roundtable was to provide this information.