When Procter & Gamble began market-testing a fat-free version of their popular Pringles snack in late 1996, Pringles brand manager Casey Keller called their attempt to revolutionize the food industry ...

A snack food ingredient called olestra has been found to speed up the removal of toxins in the body, according to a recent clinical trial. The trial demonstrated that olestra -- a zero-calorie fat ...

In an as-yet-unpublished study, researchers at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, along with Trevor Redgrave at the University of Western Australia, treated a patient with PCB toxicity ...

Snacks made with the fake fat olestra no longer will have to bear the unappetizing label that warned they might cause cramps and diarrhea. The Food and Drug Administration lifted the warning Friday, ...

Frito-Lay said Thursday it will change the labeling on its snack chips made with olestra to more prominently alert consumers to the presence of the fat substitute. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

This week's cover story takes a good, hard look at how Over-the-Rhine's white-hot redevelopment is being managed, and what the future holds. Good morning, Cincinnati! Here are the five most important ...

Frito-Lay has been notified that it will be sued by a Massachusetts consumer for deceptively marketing its line of "Light" potato chips. Those chips are made with olestra -- the controversial fat ...

Food firms haven’t exactly been knocking the door down at Procter & Gamble to take on its new fat substitute, Olestra. So far, only PepsiCo Inc.’s Frito-Lay unit is using P&G’s Olean (that’s the ...

After 30 years of saying margarine (hydrogenated fat) is better than butter (saturated fat), medical experts and health professionals have decided it's actually the other way round. To add to the ...

Frito-Lay said Thursday its chips that contain olestra will bear more prominent labeling alerting consumers to the presence of the fat substitute. The change wards off a lawsuit that a consumer group ...