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Article: A new milk to Replace skim milk? (Oatrim containing natural fat substitute)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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If you don't drink skim milk because you're no fan of the taste or its blueish hue--even though you know it's better for you than 1% or 2%--there may soon be a fat-free alternative in the supermarket cold case.
Beginning this fall, a few dairies on the East and West coasts will fortify skim milk with a newly developed product called Replace. Developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in collaboration with Golden Jersey Products, Inc., of Vero Beach, Florida, Replace contains Oatrim, a natural fat substitute derived from oats. It also contains natural thickeners and stabilizers. including carrageenan, pectin and guar gum. When added to skim milk, Replace ...