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Article: Sizzling New Soybeans.
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- Farm Journal
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- November 29, 2004
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Byline: Pam Henderson
All soybeans are not created equal-not anymore. Production contracts for new designer varieties containing lower levels of linolenic acid are germinating across the Soybean Belt faster than you can super size your fries.
This is no flash in the pan fad, says Walt Fehr, an Iowa State University soybean breeder. It's all part of a rush to reduce or eliminate the unhealthy trans-fats that plague today's popular convenience foods. And it's being spurred on by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandate that food manufacturers list the amount of trans fats on food labels by 2006 (see sidebar).
It's true that similar ...