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Fake fat Z Trim makes the cut.(Z Trim, fat substitute)(Product/service evaluation)
Cutting fat when you prepare cakes and other dishes has not been easy as pie. Fat substitutes sold in the past were likely to make food taste like cardboard, or add sugars in place of fat. But our recent tests show that a new product called Z Trim can replace butter, eggs, and oil in a range of recipes with little or no change in flavor or texture--and slash fat and calories.
Z Trim, invented by a chemist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is made of bran fiber (from corn, oats, soy, or other grains) and water. We bought the gel form; there's also a powder, which you mix with water. According to the label, a tablespoon has no calories, no fat, and slightly more than half a gram of fiber.
The manufacturer suggests using Z Trim to replace some, not all, of the fat in recipes, and that's what we did. To make salad dressing, for example, we used one-quarter cup of Z Trim and one-quarter cup of vegetable oil instead of a half-cup of oil.
Our tasters had a hard time detecting a difference between full-fat and Z Trim versions of the dishes we made. Even the Z Trim tuna salad--where we replaced 75 percent of the mayo with Z Trim, shaving off 10 grams of fat per serving--tasted as moist and flavorful as the conventional one.
We could find only one published study of Z Trim in humans, ...
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