[NAFEX] Apples with sorbitol

Lon J. Rombough lonrom at hevanet.com
Mon Feb 27 09:54:11 EST 2006


1.36  Diet apples for diet freaks

20 February 2006
  Translated by Mark Hutcko, CheckBiotech

  US researchers have developed a transgenic apple tree which bears  
fruits sweetened with sorbitol.

  US researchers have developed a technique which reduces the calories  
in an apple by about one half. With the help of genetic engineering,  
they changed the metabolism of apple trees, so they would store  
sorbitol instead of fructose in the fruit.

http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm? 
fuseaction=search&search=checkbiotech&doc_id=12287&start=1&fullsearch=1

  Submitted by Robert.Derham at unibas.ch
  Editor, Checkbiotech
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