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Canada's artificial trans fats ban comes into effect – with a phase-out period
- AboutTheWhisles 8y agoThe real question is how many comments will end up here talking about how they want the choice to eat whatever they want, not realizing that trans fats are nothing more than a preservative and don't affect taste.
- acchow 8y agoDon't affect taste? What do you mean by that? "7 Foods That Won’t Be the Same If Trans Fats Are Banned 1. Doughnuts: Without trans fats, they may become more oily. Many desserts, like cookies, cakes and doughnuts rely on trans fats to give them a lighter texture. “Only partially hydrogenated oils continue to stay a part of the matrix and don’t exude out of the food,” says Kantha Shelke, a food scientist at Corvus Blue LLC and spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)." http://healthland.time.com/2013/11/07/7-foods-that-wont-be-the-same-if-trans-fats-are-banned/ http://healthland.time.com/2013/11/07/7-foods-that-wont-be-t...
- AboutTheWhisles 8y agoWhat I mean by that is many fast food companies like KFC have already switched away from using trans fats and no one noticed.
- justtopost 8y agoPlenty noticed, most either didn't care, or had no power in the matter. The phenomenon of people going to get "real" kfc across state lines was so popular a south park episode was loosely based on the premise. There is a clear difference in taste, for those that taste their food before swallowing it with a gulp of soda. It's never really been a debate.
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- wincy 8y agoIf only we hadn’t listened to Phil Sokolof and had kept using beef tallow and lard for everything, this never would have happened. Or at least, it wouldn’t have been so prevalent.
- kup0 8y agoGlad to see them continue to be phased out. At one point, a convenience store / gas station here in the US called Sheetz had baked goods with obscene levels of trans fats. Their cake donuts, as an example, had 14g each.