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Article: How super-cows and nanotechnology will make ice cream healthy Unilever is employing cutting-edge science to take the fat and guilt out of its top brands. James Hall reports
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- August 21, 2005
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In a field somewhere in County Down, Northern Ireland, is a herd
of 40 super-cows that could take all the poisonous guilt out of
bingeing on ice cream. Unilever, the manufacturer of Persil and PG
Tips, is sponsoring a secret research project by a leading British
agricultural science institution into how to reduce the levels of
saturated fat in cow's milk.
The theory goes that by feeding the Friesians a specially
fortified diet and allowing them to roam in lush surroundings they
will produce more polyunsaturated fat - that's healthy fat - in their
milk. In essence, it is an experiment in influencing what comes out
of a cow by controlling what goes in.
Unilever believes that by procuring ...