Difference between hydrogenated and non-hydrogenated fat?

Are they equally bad?

I'm reading the back of this chocolate bar that I bought for myself and I wanted to know more about "non-hydrogenated vegetable fat". I believe it has something to do with palm oils?

Also the difference between hydrogenated and NON-hydrogenated fats?

Thank you!

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  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
    Bummer. I was hoping for pics of fatty acid chains and carbon atoms, done on someone’s keyboard.
  • diogomello12
    diogomello12 Posts: 33 Member
    Hey Lynn, thank you very much for your answer! I'm clarified now.

    Have a nice day!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    So after reading this I had to run around the house looking at ingredients in all the chocolate. I have no bars, but I do have three kinds of chocolate chips, Ghirardelli squares, mint M&Ms, chocolate bark, and Hershey's Kisses, and none of them list "vegetable fat" or "palm oil".

    Now I'm wondering when chocolate is defatted, what happens to the fat?
  • Maxxitt
    Maxxitt Posts: 1,281 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    So after reading this I had to run around the house looking at ingredients in all the chocolate. I have no bars, but I do have three kinds of chocolate chips, Ghirardelli squares, mint M&Ms, chocolate bark, and Hershey's Kisses, and none of them list "vegetable fat" or "palm oil".

    Now I'm wondering when chocolate is defatted, what happens to the fat?

    Cocoa butter lotions and cremes for the skin .... good stuff!
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Biological_Chemistry/Supplemental_Modules_(Biological_Chemistry)/Lipids/Fatty_Acids/Hydrogenation_of_Unsaturated_Fats_and_Trans_Fat

    Trans fats are getting harder to find. They’ve been about eliminated, other than small amounts that occur naturally in foods.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    Maxxitt wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    So after reading this I had to run around the house looking at ingredients in all the chocolate. I have no bars, but I do have three kinds of chocolate chips, Ghirardelli squares, mint M&Ms, chocolate bark, and Hershey's Kisses, and none of them list "vegetable fat" or "palm oil".

    Now I'm wondering when chocolate is defatted, what happens to the fat?

    Cocoa butter lotions and cremes for the skin .... good stuff!

    And also white chocolate, which only uses the fat from cocoa, not the cocoa solids.