trans fat

bscormier
bscormier Posts: 5
in Food and Nutrition
If I have eaten no trans fat all day, that I can see, how can my report say that I have eaten some?????

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  • tam120
    tam120 Posts: 444 Member
    Legally, the manufacturers are permitted to show 0 trans fats when there is less than a half gram PER SERVING. It adds up, a half here a half there. Look at the ingredients. Hydrogenated... whatever = trans fats. If none of the food you've eaten contains the word hydrogenated then I don't know.
  • bscormier
    bscormier Posts: 5
    Exactly! I checked all the foods I ate that day for their nutritional information and there were no trans fat listed at all. So I am baffled!! A flaw in the program maybe??
  • Rilke
    Rilke Posts: 1,201 Member
    You would have to go back and read all the ingredient lists for everything you ate. If you ate more than one "serving" of anything that lists hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, that's the culprit.

    I'm willing to bet I could find it if you opened your diary :P

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