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A stroke of Brilliance

A new high-performance food ingredient promises added demand for high oleic soybean oil.  Performance Food Group Company, a major restaurant supplier, recently introduced its Brilliance High Performance Soybean Clear Fry Oil.  What’s of interest to soybean growers is that its primary ingredient is Pioneer brand Plenish high oleic soybean oil.  United Soybean Board Director William Layton from Maryland, who’s been growing high oleic soybeans for five years, says more Plenish oil in restaurant fryers means greater demand.

DuPont Pioneer food and industry markets group director Russ Sanders tells Brownfield Ag News the soybean that has the high oleic trait produces a very useful product.

Sanders says Performance Food Group’s distribution of high oleic soybean oil could mean additional demand into the hundreds of thousands of acres.

AUDIO: William Layton; Russ Sanders; Mike Seidel (3 min. MP3)