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Food, Glorious Food! If you love it, why not invest in it?

By Dian Vujovich

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Veteran mutual fund investors have learned there's more tofund selection than just picking the hottest fund and plowing moneyinto it. Experience has taught them that today's hot fund couldbe tomorrow's loser. What matters most is consistent returnsover time.

But in what kinds of companies must a fund invest its assets ifit's looking for consistent returns over the long haul? Theanswer may surprise you.

The Fidelity Select Food and Agriculture Portfolio isn't thehottest-performing fund in the market today, but its track recordmakes it worth investigating. For the year ending October 31, 1998,the fund was up 17.91 percent.