(Press Release) MUNDELEIN, Ill., Aug. 27, 2012 — Z Trim Holdings, Inc. , a bio- technology company providing value-added ingredients to a variety of industries, today announced that it was selling, through its Mexican and Central American distributor, F.X. Morales and Associates, ingredients to a large pizza chain to help extend the shelf-life in the company's pizza dough.  "This is an ideal application for Z Trim," said Lynda Carroll, Z Trim VP of Sales & Applications.  "By managing moisture and slowing the staling process, our customer was able to not only present consumers with a superior product, but also improve their own bottom line."

Xavier Morales, General Director, F. X. Morales and Associates, stated, "The pizza processor said this improved dough performance allowed them to offer higher quality products that consumers appreciated.   With minimum usage levels of this Z Trim ingredient, the pizza resulted in an extraordinary product which kept the moisture and texture needed to satisfy the customers."

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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