Peanut Butter and No trans Fat!

• ShrodingersCat

  6 Apr 08, 13:23

  Found this article after I realised my peanut butte with "no trans fats" have hydrogenated oils in the ingredients list.

   

  http://www.stop-trans-fat.com/interesterified-fat.html

   

  Excerpts

   

   

  "....Basically, it is an attempt by food scientists to produce oils with “no trans fats”.

  What they do is hydrogenate the oils fully. The oils become fully saturated and there are no trans fats left. But fully hydrogenated oil is hard and inedible. So the smart aleck scientists mix it with liquid oils and put it through other chemical processes to create a semi-solid grease like margarine and vegetable shortening..."

  "...The bottom line is this… Early scientific reports -- one of which was released in mid-January 2007 by joint-researchers from Malaysia and the UK -- suggest that interesterified fat is far more harmful than trans fats.

  Interesterified fat was found to depress the level of HDL (good cholesterol) more than trans fat.

  In addition, interesterified fat raised blood glucose levels and depressed the level of insulin. This strongly suggests that interesterified fat could lead to diabetes.

  So be extra careful of products labelled “No Trans Fat” especially when they contain fully hydrogenated oils...."

   

   

• elindra

  7 Apr 08, 10:35

  End of the day we all die anyway

  So if you really want plant oil, take coconut oil  Naturally saturated

• dumbdumb!

  7 Apr 08, 11:09

  ah!! my skippy peanut butter got hydrogenated vege oil!!! how?

  i nv see any article on fully hydrogenated oil being inedible on wikipedia..

• sbst275

  7 Apr 08, 11:13

  yew.... fuss over trans fat, now sooner or later is tis..

  might as well dun eat

• kalangkabo

  7 Apr 08, 11:37

  eat grass!

• dumbdumb!

  7 Apr 08, 11:56

  eating salad with mango, prunes, egg and grapes

   

• Kuali Baba

  7 Apr 08, 12:51

  Good ol' bacon, grilled mushrooms and eggs for breakfast will do.

• eagle

  7 Apr 08, 12:54

  Adams Natural Peanut Butter

• ShrodingersCat

  7 Apr 08, 13:49

  yah I mean I rather take my good old saturated fats than all these weirdo scientific fat

   

  but it is WORSE when they tell me the weirdo scientific fat is bad for me - then they tell me there ISN"T anymore bad fat - THEN they make WORSE weirdoer scientific fat!!

   

  *confused*

• Hello Kitty

  10 Apr 08, 22:26

  alot of tings oso got de wat.

• Kuali Baba

  10 Apr 08, 22:52

  Strange...wouldn't fully-hydrogenated oil be like butter, or lard, which is also saturated fat?

  I discovered a while ago that Pepperidge Farm cookies are made with interestified fat. I'm going to miss their chunky cookies.