By early 2003, Frito-Lay will eliminate the trans fat from its original Cheetos, Doritos and Tostitos recipes. Consumers won’t get a choice as they did with, say, New or Classic Coke.

Flamin' Hot Cheetos might conjure a lot of descriptors: spicy, crunchy, unnaturally fiery red. But it's a good bet that "healthy" didn't exactly spring to mind. Yet it turns out that those fiery ...