They really opened up about their intestines. One woman said her daughter has irritable bowel syndrome and can't eat olestra. Another shopper said he had never heard of the stuff. He looked disgusted when I read him the warning label on a can of fat-free Pringles. Gary and Debbie Vogelgesang remember watching a TV news program about olestra's potential side effects.
Shoppers tell all Other folks had olestra confused with everything else.
Not according to the federal government, which requires a warning about loose stools and abdominal cramps, but nothing about cancer risk. I feel better about eating them than regular old potato chips. I probably would use more products that had olestra in them. Then there's Kristen Offutt of Florence, who ate two chips and had to run for the bathroom. But she has a delicate stomach, she says, and only bought the Pringles because her husband wanted to save fat grams.