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Heart-Healthy Cholesterol-Reducing Snacks
Article Date: 09 Oct 2007 - 4:00 PDT

Corazonas Foods, Inc., has announced an exclusive licensing agreement
with Brandeis University to utilize its technology in creating several
new categories of heart-healthy snacks. Brandeis's innovative
technology allows high levels of plant sterols to be incorporated into
snack foods while retaining the product's outstanding flavor. The
partnership's first venture, Corazonas Heart-Healthy Tortilla Chips,
are currently the first and only snack chips clinically proven to
reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, a.k.a. "bad
cholesterol," by up to 15 percent. The chips have been a huge hit
since debuting in early 2006, further demonstrating the overwhelming
consumer demand for healthful snack alternatives without sacrificing
great taste......

Link http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/84984.php

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