ice cream contain trans fats?

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balancedbrunette
balancedbrunette Posts: 530 Member
edited January 22 in Health and Weight Loss
Just curious does ice cream contain trans fats?

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  • mustgetmuscles1
    mustgetmuscles1 Posts: 3,346 Member
    None that I have ever seen. Did you read the label?
  • DrBorkBork
    DrBorkBork Posts: 4,099 Member
    Only if it has "partially hydrogenated" junk in it.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Actually ice cream does contain trans fat. Cow fat, whether from beef or dairy, is a few percent trans fat. That's why those big juicy burgers from Red Robin or Five Guys or whatever have 1-2 grams of trans fat. However, a single serving of ice cream has less than half a gram of trans fat, which means they are legally allowed to put "0g" next to trans fat on the nutrition information.

    Is this worth worrying about? Absolutely not.

    Very few foods have any appreciable quantity of trans fat in them anymore.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,736 Member
    Milk products contain natural trans fats, so it's possible if it's not one of those diet synthetic ice creams. Natural trans fats are referred to as CLA and are very healthy, so not to be confused with refined polyunsaturated partially hydrogenated oil, also referred to as trans fats.
  • balancedbrunette
    balancedbrunette Posts: 530 Member
    thanks for the replies, just curious, has usual hb ice cream today and one of my friends was on about it. :) was just wondering would not be a staple in my diet anyways. :)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    thanks for the replies, just curious, has usual hb ice cream today and one of my friends was on about it. :) was just wondering would not be a staple in my diet anyways. :)

    Ice cream is a staple of my diet. I have some almost every day.
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