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    DID YOU KNOW THEY CAN HIDE THIS FROM U?

    Posts: 380 Member
    edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    I was watching a little snippet from Comcast about Trans Fat etc... we all know Trans fat is bad. MFP doesn't even allow us 1 gram.... but did you know even though companies have to label if their product contains trans fat under a certain percentage, about half... they can still list it as 0g Trans Fat... Look in the INGREDIENTS for Partially hydroginated, Hydroginated and Shortening... <-- thats trans fat!!

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    • Posts: 1,520 Member
      Yes, I knew this. In the US, if a product contains 0.5g of trans fat or less per serving, they may say it has 0g of trans fat on the label and it can be marketed as such on the front of the package.
    • Posts: 4,437 Member
      MFP doesn't even allow us 1 gram
      Don't worry. You can customize your settings so that you can eat more.
    • Posts: 6,033 Member
      I don't count it if it's hiding.
    • Posts: 10,477 Member
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      Don't worry. You can customize your settings so that you can eat more.

      Amen, brotha.
    • Posts: 6,171 Member
      Yes, I knew this. In the US, if a product contains 0.5g of trans fat or less per serving, they may say it has 0g of trans fat on the label and it can be marketed as such on the front of the package.
      This applies to all macros. Carbs, too.
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    • Posts: 3,021 Member
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      This applies to all macros. Carbs, too.

      There is a similar law for gluten, soy, eggs, dairy, too...foods people are ALLERGIC to.
    • Posts: 1,082
      I don't count it if it's hiding.



      It's hidden in pizza, right ?? :bigsmile: Cause there's no ingredients on the Dominoes box so it must be all good stuff.
    • Posts: 2,380 Member
      Calories can hide, too. If something has less than 4 calories per serving, it can legally be listed as 0 calories or 'calorie free'. Like the Walden Farms salad dressings. The nutritional info says '0 calories' but then if you look at the bottom, if says 'contains trace calories' meaning it just happened to be low enough that they were allowed to claim it was 0.

      Although, at less than 4 calories per serving, as long as I'm not eating like 15 servings of 'whatever' I'm not really that concerned. LOL
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      It's hidden in pizza, right ?? :bigsmile: Cause there's no ingredients on the Dominoes box so it must be all good stuff.

      Pft the only kind of pizza is a California Pizza Kitchen pizza and they are perfect with not a trace of trans fat.
    • Posts: 781 Member
      A government agency withholding information?!?! :noway: I'm SHOCKED!
    • Posts: 1,520 Member
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      There is a similar law for gluten, soy, eggs, dairy, too...foods people are ALLERGIC to.

      Even worse that some ingredients contain these but you wouldn't know it without the "This product contains ___". Maltodextrin, for example, is usually made from corn. MSG and guar gum are often made from soy as well.
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      Even worse that some ingredients contain these but you wouldn't know it without the "This product contains ___". Maltodextrin, for example, is usually made from corn. MSG and guar gum are often made from soy as well.

      Yup.
    • Posts: 5,310 Member
      My suggestion would be don't eat anything that you have to check the ingredients list of.

      Real food is what it is. I think the healthiest attitude you can have to food and eating is to only buy raw ingredients and cook it yourself.
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    • Posts: 367 Member
      A government agency withholding information?!?! :noway: I'm SHOCKED!

      LMAO!
    • Posts: 89 Member
      Pizza is a vegetable so eat as much as you want...
    • Posts: 175 Member
      I think it unfortunately it is kind of normal, Fanta used fish gelatine, juices are cleared with gelatine so are some whines if I get it right. I am a vegetarian and google everything and look at the back of everything to see what is inside and I think they should have to label everything they put inside.
    • Posts: 17,299 Member
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      Don't worry. You can customize your settings so that you can eat more.

      Why would anyone want to eat more trans fats?
    • Posts: 4,437 Member
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      Why would anyone want to eat more trans fats?
      Flavor.
    • Posts: 407
      Sneaky, sneaky, I wouldn't put it past them their job is to sell as many of those products as possible - Kashi has a reputation of misleading consumers into thing their foods are organic by using phrases like 'All Natural'.
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
      I was watching a little snippet from Comcast about Trans Fat etc... we all know Trans fat is bad. MFP doesn't even allow us 1 gram.... but did you know even though companies have to label if their product contains trans fat under a certain percentage, about half... they can still list it as 0g Trans Fat... Look in the INGREDIENTS for Partially hydroginated, Hydroginated and Shortening... <-- thats trans fat!!

      I knew that. I always read ingredients.

      Trans fat is in pretty much every processed food out there, too. Anyone near a Publix should read the labels on everything in the bakery. 95% of it has trans fat in it.
    • Posts: 1,263 Member
      Sneaky, sneaky, I wouldn't put it past them their job is to sell as many of those products as possible - Kashi has a reputation of misleading consumers into thing their foods are organic by using phrases like 'All Natural'.

      That is not misleading consumers, it would be the consumers fault for not understanding the difference. 'All natural' just means they are using natural ingredients, it has nothing to do with it being organic or not.
    • Posts: 16,414 Member
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      That is not misleading consumers, it would be the consumers fault for not understanding the difference. 'All natural' just means they are using natural ingredients, it has nothing to do with it being organic or not.

      I was thinking that, too. I mean, if it doesn't say "organic," why would something think it was organic?

      And the trans fat thing? It usually says, 0 grams trans fat PER SERVING. That's generally the give-away, if it's mentioned at all.
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      Flavor.

      Wow. I think that is the craziest thing I've read on these forums, and I've read a lot of crazy things.
    • Posts: 553 Member
      SOSNA*****ES!:mad:
    • Posts: 796 Member
      Yeah, I found that out yesterday. How sneaky!
    • Posts: 4,437 Member
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      Wow. I think that is the craziest thing I've read on these forums, and I've read a lot of crazy things.
      Hey -- to each his own. I'm working on becoming fatty fat.
    • Posts: 589 Member
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      :laugh: Stealing this!
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