olestra
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
olestra (countable and uncountable, plural olestras)
- A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested and therefore adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to food products; also used as an industrial lubricant.
- 1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt):
- What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.
Translations[edit]
A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested
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