Mission Carb Balance has hydrogenated oil? Dang it!

BritDillinger
BritDillinger Posts: 77
edited November 15 in Food and Nutrition
I partake in the ketogenic diet and lifestyle. There are plenty of recipes where I can make my own homemade, low carb tortillas, but I thought it was the best thing ever to find Mission brand with only 3g net carbs! I was making them today for myself and my children when I took a closer look at the ingredients to find . . . partially hydrogenated cottonseed oils. Dang it.

For those who do not know what hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils are, they are hidden trans fats. Food companies (at least in the US) by requirements need to put trans fats on their nutrition labels, but if it's under a certain percentage (and still have hydrogenated oils in their list of ingredients) they can legally have "ZERO TRANS FATS" on their packaging. We are not going to consume these tortilla shells. It's best to avoid artificially placed trans fats.

Trans fats that naturally occur in meats and dairy products are a different story.

But yeah. Bummer. Don't be like me and be sure to look at your ingredients closely! Back to making these from scratch for me.

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  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    I had a similar thing happen to me. The tomato paste I bought had partially hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup in it -- it never even occurred to me that there might be something other than tomatoes in tomato paste. Lesson learned.
  • BritDillinger
    BritDillinger Posts: 77
    AlabasterVerve wrote: »
    I had a similar thing happen to me. The tomato paste I bought had partially hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup in it -- it never even occurred to me that there might be something other than tomatoes in tomato paste. Lesson learned.

    Oh my goodness, I have had that happen once. I couldn't believe it. I had to think of a possible reason to have those things in something like tomato paste (or sauces, diced tomatoes, et cetera). I had to buy organic cans for a while before I found store brand and name brands that carried them with nothing compromising in them. Finally.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    Why do manufacturers do such things? To make us like their products without having to use the best ingredients to make them.

    And with that, I will get off my duff and go in the kitchen and heat the milk to make my "xanthan gum, guar gum, and locust bean"-free ricotta -- which is the only way to get thickener-free ricotta around here. Milk + heat + lemon juice, drained = ricotta that melts on pasta rather than curdles.
  • BritDillinger
    BritDillinger Posts: 77
    HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »
    Why do manufacturers do such things? To make us like their products without having to use the best ingredients to make them.

    And with that, I will get off my duff and go in the kitchen and heat the milk to make my "xanthan gum, guar gum, and locust bean"-free ricotta -- which is the only way to get thickener-free ricotta around here. Milk + heat + lemon juice, drained = ricotta that melts on pasta rather than curdles.

    Haha, sounds fantastic. The thing about the ketogenic diet is I've found so many ways to make things from home and to be the healthiest I can be. I think I've even seen a recipe similar to the type of cheese you are talking about on the KetoDietApp Blog.

    Awesome. :)
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    Sadly, the rush of many products to convert from hydrogenated oils to palm oil, since it is thick at room temperature without being hydrogenated, means worse outlook for orangutans. The clearing of forests to grow the palms is reducing orangutan habitat severely. Sigh.
  • BritDillinger
    BritDillinger Posts: 77
    HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »
    Sadly, the rush of many products to convert from hydrogenated oils to palm oil, since it is thick at room temperature without being hydrogenated, means worse outlook for orangutans. The clearing of forests to grow the palms is reducing orangutan habitat severely. Sigh.

    I have seen articles on that. It's frustrating. It's a lose/lose in any given situation. In an ideal world, there wouldn't need to be for such long shelf life for foods. Get it as close to natural and make what you need to eat or store it/can it with your own means. I have a FoodSaver and have researched canning for that very purpose.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    why not just make them with lard?
  • BritDillinger
    BritDillinger Posts: 77
    _John_ wrote: »
    why not just make them with lard?

    Expires too quickly. Hydrogenated oils and palm oils give a product a much longer shelf life, but it's so unnecessary. :c
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    edited March 2015
    BritDillinger wrote: »
    _John_ wrote: »
    why not just make them with lard?

    Expires too quickly. Hydrogenated oils and palm oils give a product a much longer shelf life, but it's so unnecessary. :c

    So trace amounts of trans fat for you or destroy some primate habitat...

    Great product.
  • BritDillinger
    BritDillinger Posts: 77
    _John_ wrote: »
    BritDillinger wrote: »
    _John_ wrote: »
    why not just make them with lard?

    Expires too quickly. Hydrogenated oils and palm oils give a product a much longer shelf life, but it's so unnecessary. :c

    So trace amounts of trans fat for you or destroy some primate habitat...

    Great product.

    That's why I said it's a lose/lose. Trace amounts aren't so trace anymore when you see the Standard American Diet consumes product after product of hydrogenated oils. Take a look at your food sometime to see just how many have it.

    It really sucks. That's why I wish things could be more . . . wholesome. Fresh. Like a farmer's market, but all the time. Or people learn to cook.
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