date:Nov 11, 2013
itial research and development of switching to a trans fat free oil was four years. It took two years more to change the entire product line.
We've mastered it, and I'm not going to tell you how we did it, laughed Pamela Newell, a senior director of product development at ConAgra. It took a lot of money, she added, since many replacement oil blends limited or reduced the flavor of the popcorn.
Partially hydrogenated oils, the primary source of the fats in foods, have long been prized by microw