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Not only that, but fully hydrogenated oils are supposed to be quite bad for you. I think. It’s really hard to keep current on nutrition debates and “healthy” is
by melq 7y ago
Not only that, but fully hydrogenated oils are supposed to be quite bad for you. I think. It’s really hard to keep current on nutrition debates and “healthy” is a fairly nebulous concept when it comes to food.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoIt's not fully hydrogenated any more for that reason, though I couldn't tell you what it is instead.
- indecisive_user 7y agoIt is fully hydrogenated. You can read the ingredients on their website[1]. While it's not the healthiest fat for a typical Western diet, it contains zero trans fat(partially hydrogenated), which is the only truly harmful fat. Trans fat is pretty much dangerous in any quantity and directly correlates to an increase in cardiovascular events. Artificially added Trans fat was banned in the US in 2018. 1. https://www.crisco.com/products/vegetable-shortening/all-vegetable-shortening https://www.crisco.com/products/vegetable-shortening/all-veg...
- dehrmann 7y agoAren't hydrogenated oils just saturated fats?
- pstuart 7y agoThey're trans fats: https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-smart/fats/trans-fat https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
- dehrmann 7y ago> The primary dietary source for trans fats in processed food is “partially hydrogenated oils." Look for them on the ingredient list on food packages. Crisco ~removed (FDA lets you state 0 trans fat if it's less than .5g per serving) trans fats, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is no longer an ingredient. Hydrogenating oils saturates them. According to Wikipedia, > Partial hydrogenation of the unsaturated fat converts some of the cis double bonds into trans double bonds by an isomerization reaction with the catalyst used for the hydrogenation, which yields a trans fat. So apparently fully hydrogenating an oil won't produce trans fat.
- pstuart 7y agoThanks for clarifying that :-D