Everyday products with Trans Fats - list them here.

needmoney

Good thread Deleted_User and yes it's areal pain these days checking everything for the kids.

kwichick my SIL went for a health check and was advised to eat butter too got told it's far better for us advice everywhere is so confusing.

nick_b

needmoney wrote:

kwichick my SIL went for a health check and was advised to eat butter too got told it's far better for us advice everywhere is so confusing.

I would much rather eat something that is natural e.g. butter rather than something that has been processed like margarine. I mean, vegetable oil's natural state is a liquid. It only gets solidified by messing about with it. Butter tastes much better anyway!

[Deleted User]

It's an interesting point about eating real butter instead of the supposedly healthier alternative spreads.

This goes for cream too.

Elmlea contains transfats but REAL cream does not.

In an ideal world we would all avoid processed food and avoid giving it to children - but we don't live in an ideal world and time is often short. Can you imagine the nightmare of standing in the busy supermaket trying to read all the ingredients?

And let's face it - there are few people who haven't actually ENJOYED an unhealthy 'processed' food of some sort from time to time, cup-a soups, cakes, biscuits, pot noodle etc.. - despite all the unpronounceable ingredients. You need a degree in chemistry or nutrition to understand them!

With the best will in the world, the majority of people cannot eliminate ALL processed food completely, and may not want to - so it would be nice to know whch everday products to choose or avoid.

recovering_spendaholic

I have always used Stork Margarine and thought that it would be full of TF's but was pleasantly surprised to find that it had virtually none!! Also I can't believe its not butter hasn't got them. I have heard the argument about butter but my problem is that half a pound of butter lasts me about a day but 250g I can't believe its not butter lasts ages!!! Trex and flora white are both also loaded with TF's so is Atora vegetable suet - I use Stork and sometimes lard if making savoury pastry. Also if you have fat in a deep fat fryer that you re-use then each time you heat the oil you hydrogenate some of the fat and that is why it goes thicker the more you use it. I am obsessed with looking for trans fats or HVO's in stuff but I reckon it is pretty nigh impossible to exclude them totally from an everyday diet, particularly if you have kids.

Smashing

Mentioned in a Which? report yesterday -

Sainsbury’s supermarket is to cut dangerous trans fats from its own food and drinks by nexxt January.

Marks & Spencer has already stopped using hydrogenated vegetable fats - which can contain trans fats - in its food production.

Tesco says it is 'working hard' to remove hydrogenated fat from its own-brand products by the end of this year. A Tesco spokesperson said: ‘It [trans fat] has already been removed from the vast majority of own brand foods, for example, there is no hydrogenated fat in our Healthy Living range, our Kids range, our ready meals or any of our chilled range.

Sainsbury's will have phased out trans fats from all 15,000 own-brand lines by the start of January.At the same time artificial flavour enhancers will also be removed from all Sainsbury’s own brand food and drink.

Great idea for a thread - "just one gram of trans fat eaten daily can significantly increase the risk of heart disease." :eek:

taplady

Trans fats are in lots of products also known as hydrodgenated or partially hyrgodgenated vegetable oils they are runny fats that have hydrogen in them to make them solid.They are well used because they are cheap for producers to put in their products!they are in a lot of convenience foods.

I have noticed them in a lot of the cheaper cakes and biscuits, dream topping, gravy granules, vegetable suet and a whole lot more besides.I have done several courses on nutrition and healthy eating and was told to avoid them if at all possible as they are worse than saturated fats like butter .

Thanks for this thread as it is a subject close to my heart!;)

taplady

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

I reckon it is pretty nigh impossible to exclude them totally from an everyday diet, particularly if you have kids.

I agree! I think they should be banned!

letsgobilliejoe

nick_b wrote:

I would much rather eat something that is natural e.g. butter rather than something that has been processed like margarine. I mean, vegetable oil's natural state is a liquid. It only gets solidified by messing about with it. Butter tastes much better anyway!

and milk is naturally a solid?

P.S. I only ever use "Pure" margarine

Floss

Take a look at this link...

http://www.tfx.org.uk/page13.html

There's quite a few brands on their lists.

nick_b

letsgobilliejoe wrote:

and milk is naturally a solid?

It is when you freeze it