Nestle Cuts Kit Kat Saturated Fat with Palm Oil Switch
Nestle UK & Ireland reduces saturated fat level in Kit Kat by 10%, by changing the palm oil in the wafer filling.
The formulation comes as Nestle signed the UK government’s addition to its public health Responsibility Deal, which seeks to reduce levels of saturated fats.
Wafer filling formulation
Sally Pain, corporate communications at Nestle spoke:”The reduction has been made by changing the oil that is used to make the wafer filling – this new oil is of palm oil origin and is from a segregated sustainable source.”
” The new palm oil that we are now using has a different specification to the previous oil we used. This has a lower saturated fat profile and once it is combined with the praline in the wafer of the Kit Kat results in the reduction of the overall saturated fat level of the product.”
According to the American Palm Oil Council, palm oil is approximately 50% saturated fat and 50% unsaturated fat, while palm kernel oil is 82% saturated fat.
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