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Trans fat showing zero

Maliyanjourney
Maliyanjourney Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I don't eat many processed foods so i wasn't surprised to see zero trans fat in my nutrition. But, when i played around to see results of various foods i presumed to have them i couldn't see any. Do people see trans fats in thrir own nutrition records? I'm in Australia so maybe that has something to do with it?

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  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    How/why did you presume whatever had trans fats?
  • NewOR2015
    NewOR2015 Posts: 1,018 Member
    I looked up my trans fat report and found only 2 days out of 90 when I had any trans fat. One day I had Church's fried chicken and the other I had Church's fried shrimp. (I'm from Texas.)
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    Not a lot of food has it anymore. In the United States trans fat will be banned in 2018 and companies have already begun phasing it out.
  • kaylasaurus
    kaylasaurus Posts: 45 Member
    Not sure how it is in Australia - but in the US labeling laws allowed for anything up to .5g to be labeled as 0. But you said you don't eat a lot of processed foods so you should be fine, and just in case look at the ingredients of everything you buy. Anything hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated is Trans.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Some coffee creamers, fast food, cookies -- some of them still have transfats.
    Otherwise, they are mostly out of the food supply in the U.S.
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