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> I think the biggest takeaway from all the research I did is that not all fats are equal. You can say that again... I was recently looking at the nutrition c
by ravenstine 5y ago
> I think the biggest takeaway from all the research I did is that not all fats are equal.
You can say that again...
I was recently looking at the nutrition content of Wendy's cheeseburgers; they actually do a pretty good job at displaying nutrition facts and also scaling it with custom orders. Anyway, I noticed that a triple cheeseburger could have ~4g of trans fats.
Wait a sec, is Wendy's ignoring regulations about trans fats?
No, as it turns out. I discovered that some trans fats from nature are actually beneficial (palmitoleic acid and vaccenic acid in the beef patties). This went totally counter to everything I thought I knew.
In other words, it never ceases to surprise me how nuanced nutrition can be and how easily we oversimplify it.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoA Wendy’s triple cheeseburger still sounds like a poor choice.
- stephen_g 5y agoYeah, it's interesting, hey? I mentioned Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) - that's another one that is technically a trans fat, but seems to be beneficial (although apparently supplementation doesn't seem to have the same benefits as getting it in food, so maybe there's another interaction, like how foods that contain CLA also often contain Vitamin K2 as well).