What is OLESTRA?

OLESTRA is a fat substitute used in food and food preparation, most often food foods usually contain high concentrations of fat. Potato chips were one of the first commercially available products that were used in preparation. The advantage is an extreme reduction or complete removal of the fat content of traditionally greasy foods. As well as insoluble fiber found in corn and apples, the oltra is not cleaned or absorbed by the body and passes through the human digestive system completely unchanged. Premature births led to the fact that P&G contacted in 1971 in 1971 to explore testing that would be necessary for the Olean® production and market as fat, specifically as fat, specifically as fat, specifically as fat.

In the testing that followed, the P&G scientists have seen an interesting side effect when the Žestra was used to replace natural diet fats. After the use of OLESTRA, the blood cholesterol levels decreased. P&G subsequently filed for the FDA to the OLESTRA J marketAKO remedy for the treatment of high cholesterol. However, P&G studies failed to cause a 15% drop in cholesterol levels on the quality of OLESTRA as treatment.

Only in 1996 FDA finally approved OLESTRA as a food ingredient. The first product used by Olean® as a dietary fat substitute was the WoW® potato chips from Frito-Lay®. After their national launch in 1998, WoW® chips were originally successful and rake for sale exceeding $ 400 million USD (USD). However, mostly reports of some unpleasant side effects, which were subsequently presented from the product on the product, as ordered by the FDA, sales decreased sharply.

Side effects - including free stools, abdominal cramps and OLESTRA intervention with the ability of the body to absorb certain key vitamins, namely vitamins A, D, E and K - were sufficient to reduce sales by 2000 to 200 millionUSD. Although the intestinal side effects that have become commonly known in the media as an "anal leak" occurred only as a result of excessive consumption, it was sufficient to suppress the reputation of the product and reduce the attraction of consumers. The FDA, which quoted another study, decided that the warning label was not guaranteed and approved its removal despite complaints that number more than 20,000 about side effects. Since the time of the original studies, it has also been shown that Olean® has no impact on the body's ability to absorb the fat -soluble vitamins.

OLESTRA, under the Olean® brand, is still used primarily as a replacement for Certain Savory Snack Foods, including Lays® Light Potato chips, Doritos® Light Snack Chips, Pringles® Light Potato Crisps, Lightweight Potato Luffles® and Tostitos® Light Tortilla Chips. The FDA declared Olean® "generally considered safe" (GRAS) at the end of 2008 for use in the manufacture of pre -backed and prepared cookies using Olean® Bakelean. BakElean products are proprietary mixtures Olean® and vegetable oils used as a substitute for butter, margarine and shortening in the production of pastry, reduce calories and the fat product content by 75%. Olean® is not approved for use or sale in Canada or the European Union.