Smart Balance

Smart Balance, Inc. (NASDAQSMBL) is a company that manufactures products including margarine substitutes, flavored microwave popcorn, and peanut butter. The products claim to have no partially hydrogenated vegetable oils added, extremely low levels of trans fats, and to be comparable in quality to vegetable oil based products. The oils used in Smart Balance products contain low levels of naturally occurring trans fats, about 70 mg of trans fat per serving. Some blends in this line include fish oil, while some include only vegetable-based ingredients. The oil blend used in some of the products was developed at Brandeis University.[1]

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