Label Decoder: Olestra by Toby Amidor in Grocery Shopping, Label Decoder, July 23, 2010
- Olestra is a common ingredient in fat-free chips.
When I was in graduate school, some of my fellow dietetic students tracked down one of the first stores where the nonfat fried chips were being sold. The employee that answered the phone explained how he’d downed an entire package and had a horrible stomach ache (though he was a bit more descriptive of his symptoms). From that day on, I knew chips fried in Olestra weren’t all they were cracked up to be.
