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Trans-Fats
Here's a really interesting website about trans-fats and the new labeling law:
http://bantransfats.com/
We've been reading labels and avoiding partially-hydrogenated fats for a couple of years now, and now we can taste it when we eat a food that contains it. (For example, I recently bought "Skippy" peanut butter without reading the label. It's full of partially-hydrogenated oil. After a couple of years of buying the good kind of peanut butter, the Skippy tastes really processed; that is, far from the taste of pure peanuts. It's funny, too, because that "mouth-feel" is one of the reasons for engineering the partially-hydrogenated fat.
Fortunately, the food industry is now re-engineering their recipes to avoid the stuff.
Here's a really interesting website about trans-fats and the new labeling law:
http://bantransfats.com/
We've been reading labels and avoiding partially-hydrogenated fats for a couple of years now, and now we can taste it when we eat a food that contains it. (For example, I recently bought "Skippy" peanut butter without reading the label. It's full of partially-hydrogenated oil. After a couple of years of buying the good kind of peanut butter, the Skippy tastes really processed; that is, far from the taste of pure peanuts. It's funny, too, because that "mouth-feel" is one of the reasons for engineering the partially-hydrogenated fat.
Fortunately, the food industry is now re-engineering their recipes to avoid the stuff.
posted by Anonymous at 10:22 PM
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Once I was stuck at a railroad crossing and watched tank car after tank car loaded with corn syrup go by. Almost the whole train was carrying corn syrup. I was thinking oh my god where is all that going?
I think the answer is to avoid processed foods as much as possible. If you're dieting you're doing a lot more cooking from scratch so that helps.
Thanks for the website, Nancy. I'll go look at it.
Here's a live link:
http://bantransfats.com/
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