Everyday products with Trans Fats - list them here.

thriftlady_2

Sarahsaver wrote:

One last question...
Should I bin the duck fat I rendered down?

I believe goose fat is actually polyunsaturated not saturated, so I would imagine duck fat is too;)

Amongst all the confusion about fats and other nutrition advice, the one thing all the experts seem to agree on, is that we should eat plenty of fruit and veg. I think if you're doing that then there isn't much room in your diet for too much of anything else.

MIRRY_2

The Jammie doggers we got were from the £1 shop and Im sure they were burtons ? (are they old stock at 2 for a £1).

Just checked BISTO original gravy powder and this is the ingredients;

potato starch,salt,wheat starch,colour E150c,dried yeast,onion powder.

carinska

I recently got a breadmaker and thought I was being very healthy by replacing the butter with oil. Stood at the oil shelf for ages deliberating and finally went for rapeseed oil as it seemed low in all the things you are meant to avoid. Now having looked at the tfx page it seems that rapeseed oil can have "hidden" trans fats, which are not listed on the label!
I am completely baffled now - what oil can be used for baking/frying etc that contains "good" fats?
Thanks!

Thistle-down

Both my ASDA fruit & fibre cereal and peanut butter have hydrogenated oil as the second or third ingrediant.:(

I am almost scared to look through our pantry as we cannot currently afford to replace the items we have. I will be looking carefully in future now.

~Lynn

thriftlady_2

carinska wrote:

I recently got a breadmaker and thought I was being very healthy by replacing the butter with oil. Stood at the oil shelf for ages deliberating and finally went for rapeseed oil as it seemed low in all the things you are meant to avoid. Now having looked at the tfx page it seems that rapeseed oil can have "hidden" trans fats, which are not listed on the label!
I am completely baffled now - what oil can be used for baking/frying etc that contains "good" fats?
Thanks!

Olive oil is very healthy(still high in cals though),it's fine for frying etc and would be Ok in savoury type breads especially pizza dough. I make bread by hand and never use any fat except to grease the tins.You could try your BM without fat.

The downside of olive oil is that it is more expensive than other oils. I use sunflower oil for baking and frying things when I don't want the taste of olive oil. I'm sure it doesn't have trans-fats in unless they're small amounts of naturally occuring ones ?

The main thing is to avoid products with hydrogenated vegetable oils added to them. I think a vegetable oil that is naturally liquid is a good choice.

competitionscafe

Excellent article from todays paper which also features our fantastic local baker [Manna House in Edinburgh]:

Grease is the word

The British public is belatedly waking up to dangers of trans fats - the cheap, chemically treated oils that lurk unlabelled in many processed foods. Alex Renton investigates the ingredient viewed with suspicion even by the junk food-loving Americans.
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/food/story/0,,1881919,00.html

Ted_Hutchinson

Bold New York City Health Department Proposals Praised
If New York can ban transfats why can't London?

earthmother

Picking up on the E-numbers earlier in this thread - this is my list of safe (and some 'query safe but not yet flagged as bad') e-numbers.

It came from website quite some time ago - I've lost the link, but luckily cut and paste the info itself (apologies for the columns - not found out how to use tabs on here yet).

Safe E-NUMBERS - A Pocket Guide

The list is based on information from the Ministries of Health of the United States, France, UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia & Italy.

E-Number Name Category

E100 Curcumin Colour - Yellow and Orange
E101 Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) Colour - Yellow and Orange
E140 Chlorophyll Colour - Green
E160a Alpha, Beta, Gamma Carotene Colour - Carotene derivative
E160b Annatto, Bixin, Norbixin Colour - Carotene derivative
E160c Capsanthin / Capsorbin Colour - Carotene derivative
E160d Lycopene Colour - Carotene derivative
E160e Beta-apo-8-carotenal Colour - Carotene derivative
E160f Ethyl ester of Beta-apo-8-cartonoic acid Colour - Carotene derivative
E161a Flavoxanthin Colour - Plant
E161b Lutein Colour - Plant
E161c Cryptoxanthin Colour - Plant
E161d Rubixanthin Colour - Plant
E161e Violaxanthin Colour - Plant
E161f Rhodoxanthin Colour - Plant
E161g Canthaxanthin Colour - Plant
E170 Calcium Carbonate (Chalk) Colour - Inorganic
E171 Titanium Dioxide Colour - Inorganic
E172 Iron Oxides and Hydroxides Colour - Inorganic
E173 Aluminium Colour - Inorganic
E174 Silver Colour - Inorganic
E175 Gold Colour - Inorganic
E300 L-Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C) Antioxidants- Vitamin C and derivatives
E301 Sodium-L-Ascorbate Antioxidants- Vitamin C and derivatives
E302 Calcium-L-Ascorbate Antioxidants- Vitamin C and derivatives
E304 Ascorbyl Palmitate Antioxidants- Vitamin C and derivatives
E306 Natural Extracts rich in Tocopherols Antioxidants- Vitamin E
E307 Synthetic Alpha-Tocopherol Antioxidants- Vitamin E
E308 Synthetic Gamma-Tocopherol Antioxidants- Vitamin E
E309 Synthetic Delta-Tocopherol Antioxidants- Vitamin E
E401 Sodium Alginate Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - Alginates
E402 Potassium Alginate Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - Alginates
E403 Ammonium Alginate Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - Alginates
E406 Agar Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - other plant gums
E407 Carrageenan Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - other plant gums
E412 Guar Gum Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - other plant gums
E414 Gum Acacia (Gum Arabic) Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - other plant gums
E415 Xanthan Gum Emulsifiers and Stabilisers - other plant gums

Hope it's of use to someone

vivaladiva

Lots of products seem to contain vegetable oil in one guise or another - do manufactureres have to state whether it is hydrogenated or not?
And are there any other sneaky names for hydrogenated?

lynzpower

this is an absoulte minefield for me, my OH has very high cholestrol and any animal fat is out for us.

Hes been told to eat margarines, so we use flora

What the hell can we eat these days???