Diet Trends Affect Processing

Diets that promise quick weight loss are the bane of nutritionists, who keep insisting that there is no magic approach except to eat less and exercise more. Nonetheless, fad diets are popular, and some may have influenced public food-buying practices enough to affect such industries as baking and pasta. In turn, food companies have developed new products or modified old ones to satisfy customers influenced by popular diet suggestions.

Low-Carbohydrate Products
Both the Atkins and South Beach diets…