Trans Fats

daveyboy1968
daveyboy1968 Posts: 1
in Health and Weight Loss
Wegith loss is great, but deadly trans fat sticking to your arteries is reckoned to be the single biggest cause of all coronary deaths. According to most scientific sources, there is no safe level of trans fat, so why does Cup a soup contain these deadly outlawed unnatural ingredients in the form of mono and diglycerides of fatty acids?

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  • bikhi
    bikhi Posts: 175
    maybe you should ask the company that makes it. :huh:
  • issyfit
    issyfit Posts: 1,077 Member
    I'd boycott them, don't eat anything with any trans fats.
  • kyliethesilly
    kyliethesilly Posts: 4 Member
    Why? Allow me the history.

    Back in the day, a miracle pantry staple was introduced which not only amazed people with its baking qualities, but also dramatically increased shelf life of foods that were infused with it. Margarine especially took off during WWII, as it was a cheap alternative to butter, which was being fiercely rationed during that time. Crisco had been becoming a staple ingredient for baking throughout the past century, because it was cheap and increased shelf life of foods.

    Really, that's all there basically is to it. It's just a bit more convenient, and as such it's very profitable.

    Now, you must know to read the ingredients list of the product, due to the fact that the FDA only allows ingredients with <5% to be listed on the nutrition facts label. So if a foodstuffs technically has hydrogenated oils, but in amounts less than 5% on the listed serving size, they don't have to list it on the nutrition facts label. Well, that's cool, except ANY trans fat sucks, which is why one must closely look at the ingredients list for words such as "partially hydrogenated". D:

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