There are currently many low-fat and no-fat food items sold in the marketplace. These low-fat and no-fat food items usually contain known fat replacements. Modified starches are known in the art as being useful as fat substitutes in such food products. For example, the A. E. Staley Manufacturing Company, located in Decatur, Ill., produces a modified food starch which sells under the brand name of Stellar and is claimed to be useful as a fat substitute. Another example is a water soluble dietary fiber composition prepared by treatment of oat milled products with alpha-amylases, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,996,063, issued Feb. 26, 1991 to Inglet.