COLUMBUS – An industry group hopes this weekend’s Columbus Food Truck Festival will help shine a spotlight on a kind of oil that promises to be healthy and tasty, a combination often hard to come by.
The 2015 Columbus Food Truck Festival
Columbus Commons area downtown
Friday and Saturday: Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday: Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Five of the trucks on the festival grounds will be frying, baking and cooking with locally grown soybean oil from high oleic soybeans, which the United Soybean Board says contains less saturated fats than vegetable oils and is trans-fat free.
Niko’s Street Eats, En Place Food Truck, Aromaku and A Cut Above will be using the oil provided by the Board, which represents soybean farmers, including 24,000 in Ohio, as part of a program to more Ohio farmers to raise high oleic soybeans.
Billed as the nation’s largest food truck gathering, the Columbus Food Truck Festival has added a third day this year and features – in addition to more than 70 mobile food vendors – crafters and music over a two-block area of downtown.