Future Strategies for Fat Replacement

Just the fats, ma’am. That would probably be the catch-phrase for Dragnet ’s Sergeant Joe Friday if he worked as a food formulator in the early 1990s. Back then, all his efforts would have been concentrated on getting a certain element off the streets—or in this case, to put it more accurately, getting the negatively perceived fat out of the formula.

While fats were being removed—in that sense the good sergeant was very successful in his dogged pursuits—they were also being replaced with a number…