As food company and processor demand for better oils for healthier foods continues to grow, Monsanto next season will offer soybean farmers an expanded portfolio of high-performing Vistive™ low-linolenic soybeans, which can reduce or eliminate trans fats in processed soybean oil.

Introduced on just 100,000 acres in 2005, Vistive low-lin beans were planted on approximately 1.5 million acres in 2007. More than 100 food companies, including KFC and Kellogg’s, are now using Vistive low-lin oil in their products. In addition, numerous cities, counties and states have either enacted or are considering bans on trans fats in school cafeterias and restaurants. …more