future
When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required trans fat content to be listed on nutrition labels in January 2006, the soybean industry began to find ways to lower unhealthy trans fat in soybean oil.
A number of desired oil traits are currently in the pipeline - some further away than others. The first trait enhancement was a low-linolenic variety. Future traits expected to emerge include:
- increased oleic
- low-saturate
- low-phytate
- Omega-3
- mid-oleic/low-saturate
- higher metabolizable energy
- high-oleic
- amino acid
