Question

What foods would you avoid in your diet to eliminate trans fats? What foods would you replace the trans fat foods with? You need to check food labels as it is a federal requirement to put trans fats on each label.

Okay now is the part that will surprise you, all partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated fats contain TRANS FATS! The actual ingredients will say partially hydrogenated fat but the label will say 0 Trans fats, that is because if the product has a .5 grams of trans fat in each serving the label can say 0 trans fats. Yes, that is deceiving. So when you look at the label check to see if the food says partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated fat in it, those two terms mean that man has made that fat and it's a trans fat.

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Trans fat is a type of unsaturated fat that is produced during partial hydrogenation of the unsaturated fats. Trans fat is not good for health and its consumption is linked with an increased risk of coronary heart disease.

Food that usually contains transfat include:

• Doughnuts
• Cake and cake frostings
• Buiscuits or cookies
• Packaged baked goods
• Margarine and spreads
• Frying fast food
• Butter

Food that would replace the trans fat food:

• Use saturated fat butter and in smaller amounts
• Use tropical oils or saturated vegetable fats that includes palm oil and coconut oil
• Vistive® Gold so?ybean oil (produced from genetically engineered soybean) produced by Monsanto is designed as a replacement for hydrogenated oils and fats and it contains low levels of saturated and trans fat as compared to other cooking oils (full approval obtained for planting in United States)
• Other food items that contain no trans fat are egg white, yogurt, nonfat milk, fruits and vegetables, mushrooms, low-fat english muffins, hot or cold cereals, pasta and rice, breads, grains such as barley, quinoa.