Z Trim Ingredients: Making a Difference in School Nutrition and the Fight Against Childhood Obesity

MUNDELEIN, Ill., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Z Trim Holdings, Inc. (OTC Markets: ZTHO – News), a bio-technology company providing value-added ingredients to a variety of industries, is making a push to make healthier the foods that kids already like to eat, enabling schools to meet tough new USDA nutrition guidelines and thereby helping to address the critical U.S. obesity problem. The chart below demonstrates how finished foods made with Z Trim, can significantly reduce fat, calories and/or sodium, while still delivering the same taste and mouthfeel that kids enjoy in these staple items.

Evelyn Kilronomos, a registered dietitian for the Volusia County School District in Florida, stated, "In 15 years in the industry, I have never seen a product like Z Trim.  We are able to remove fat and calories from staple food items, and the kids don't even know the difference because Z Trim does not change the taste or texture of the foods.  We are just beginning to see how Z Trim can help improve our nutritionals across a wide range of food items that we currently serve."

"Healthy foods do no good if kids won't eat them," said Lynda Carroll, Z Trim's VP of Sales and Applications.  "Schools around the country are thrilled to see how Z Trim's natural ingredients can help processors produce the foods that kids love, while still meeting the calorie, fat and sodium standards required by the USDA."  Carroll continued, "It's very gratifying to see this translate into increased sales of our ingredients, both to school districts with commissaries that make their own meals, as well as to food service manufacturers selling finished items directly to the districts."

For more detailed information on how Z Trim ingredients can help schools remove as much as 32,000 calories per year from current school meals, while still appealing to children's finicky tastes, click on the attached presentation Z Trim School Nutrition Presentation.

ABOUT Z TRIM®

Z Trim Holdings, Inc. (www.ztrim.com) is a bio-technology company that owns existing, and has developed new, products and processes to make use of biomass for uses in the food and industrial markets.   The Company's food division currently sells a line of products to the food industry that can help food manufacturers reduce their costs and help them solve many production problems.  The Company's revolutionary technology provides value-added ingredients across virtually all food industry categories.  The Company's all-natural products, among other things, help to reduce fat and calories, add fiber, provide shelf-stability, prevent oil migration, and add binding capacity – all without degrading the taste and texture of the final food products.  Perhaps most significantly, Z Trim's products can help extend finished products, and thereby increase its customers' gross margins.  The Company's industrial division, opened in 2012, plans to sell eco-friendly ingredients to oil drilling, hydraulic fracturing, petroleum coke, steel/aluminum, paper and other industries.  The Company's industrial ingredients are highly functional in applications for adhesives, binders, viscofiers and emulsifiers.

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