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olestra

olestra noun: 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.

Noun

olestra (countable and uncountable, plural olestras)

  1. 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.
    • What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)

Forms of olestra

pluralolestras

Origin of olestra

1980s, from (p)ol(y)est(e)r + -a.

Questions about olestra

What does olestra mean?
Olestra means 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.
What part of speech is olestra?
Olestra is a noun.
What is the plural of olestra?
The plural of olestra is olestras.

Words near olestra in the dictionary

  1. Olesky
  2. Olesno
  3. Oleson
  4. Olesons
  5. Olessia
  6. olestra
  7. olestras
  8. Olesya
  9. olethreutid
  10. olethreutids
  11. olethreutine

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