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Article: Despite mimics, there is still no substitute for fat
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 6, 1991
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Fat is the cool slide of ice cream on your tongue. Fat is the
snap of corn chips. It is the moisture of muffins, the brittleness
of croissants and the tenderness of well-marbled steak.
Fat delivers taste, aroma and texture so efficiently that one
researcher has called it flavor's magic carpet.
It adds so much goodness to food that if you remove fat in the
interest of health, you had better find something else to take its
place. And because no one has yet come up with a substance that can
do everything fat can do, food technologists are using a variety of
products to mimic its virtues.
Fat, of course, is the health taboo of the '90s. It has been
cited as a contributor to obesity, ...