Guest guest Posted January 31, 2005 Report Share Posted January 31, 2005 Additive May Help Chips Lower Cholesterol Jan 30, 7:42 PM (ET) By MARK JEWELL WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) - Tortilla chips might not be health food anytime soon, but science may have found a way to make them lower your cholesterol. Researchers are frying chips in oil spiked with an ingredient from plants called phytosterol, which can soak up cholesterol without harming the taste. K.C. Hayes, one of the Brandeis University scientists working on the method, acknowledges fried chips, doughnuts and the like may forever remain the stuff of nutritionists' nightmares. But he's realistic. Most people are unlikely to give up fried snacks entirely, so why not improve the munchies a tad to partly offset the fat and preservatives? " I'm not trying to advocate eating chips, " Hayes told The Associated Press. " They have their place, and let's make them better - that's all. " (The rest can be found at this link...) http://tinyurl.com/6eobe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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