No-calorie Powder May Substitute For Foods Fat :: essays research papers

No-Calorie Powder May Substitute for Foods Fat     George E. Inglett of the U.S. Department of Agricultures BiopolymerResearch unit in Peoria III invented a no-calorie fat substitute called Z-Trim.It is a aggregate of crushed personas made from the hulls of grains. It can replace thefat and some of the carbohydrates in foods such as chocolates, brownies, cheese,and ground beef. He spent three long time trying to perfect Z-Trim to be smoothbecause he made it away of tough hulls of corn, oats, and rice. He first crushedthe hulls with a solution of enthalpy peroxide. He washed the peroxide off incentrifuge. After this cadence it was still too large, so he put the pieces backthrough and through the first step of the hydrogen peroxide and the centrifuge. That madeit smooth. Now, it is a fine, light cellulose powder that can be made into agel by adding water.     Inglett also developed Oatrim. This is made up of a digestible fiberfrom oat flou r that provides four calories per gram.     Z-Trim compared to another fat substitute, olestra, is different.Olestra can cause GI distress and take vitamins and carotenoidsout of the body. The new substitute does not perplex those affects. Inglett saysthat you should eat more of the kind of fibers that make up Z-Trim to reducethe chances of getting intestinal disorders.     But there are some people who conclude with Ingletts theory on his newsubstitute. "I wouldnt expect Z-Trim to have the uniform kinds of problems asolestra," says Margo Wootan, a senior scientist at the Center for Science in thePublic Interest in Washington, D.C. "Fiber is already found in our diet, whileolestra is a synthetic chemical. There is also concern for the "microbicstability" of foods containing Z-Trim. "Whenever you remove the lipid materialand replace it with water," says Thomas H.