Show Americas America's No 1 cookie contains vanilla cream and trans fat Judith The Washington Post The classic Oreo is promoted as Americas America's favorite cookie But Americans are a diverse crowd so the Oreo in configurations In addition to the traditional traditional traditional tra tra- tra- tra now comes many chocolate wafer sandwich filled with vanilla stuffed double-stuffed ones with vanilla or cream 1 there are peanut-butter peanut cream covered chocolate-covered ones in in different reduced-fat reduced and sugar-free sugar Oreos flavors and even Something for everybody Then along came the trans-fat trans rule and the Oreo universe changed W. W ll r Ji 1 7 l r A S I t 1 t ty a Trans fats are partially hydrogenated vegetable oils used by manufacturers of processed foods as food stabilizers and flavor But they have a dark side Scientific studies found that trans fats raised bad cholesterol lowered good cholesterol Oreo Creo Cookie Cont on Page 5 Oreo Creo Cookie Cont Conf from front and contributed to diabetes and heart problems As a result in July 2003 the Food and Drug Administration issued a arule arule arule rule requiring manufacturers to print the amount of trans fats on nutrition labels by Jan 1 2006 Food manufacturers including Kraft Foods which owns the Oreo brand were given those 2 2 1 years to figure out a way to maintain the flavor and stability of their signature products without using trans fats fats or or disclose the presence of the unhealthy fats on food labels In late December Kraft announced that its products including Oreos would meet the trans-fat trans labeling dead dead- line And in January as t the e cookies were trucked to the nations nation's grocery stores Kraft spokeswoman Laurie announced the newest version version version ver ver- sion of the year old icon the trans- trans free fat-free Oreo |