How is Olean made?
Olean is a fat analogue that contains no fat or calories. It is made from vegetable oil and ordinary table sugar, two ingredients you use in your kitchen every day. The oils undergo a process that reduces their caloric value while retaining the creamy “mouth-feel” of fat. Olean is the first fat-based cooking oil that can be used like fat, including for frying and baking. This means that, for the first time, foods prepared with Olean taste like their full-fat counterparts but have substantially fewer calories and little or no fat. Like the insoluble, natural fiber in apples, corn and bran, olestra is impossible for the stomach to digest. That means neither the fat nor the sugar are absorbed by the body.
