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Prevalence of Partially Hydrogenated Oils in US Packaged Foods (2012)
- sogen 12y agotl;dr: "Nine percent of products in the sample contained partially hydrogenated oils; 84% of these products listed “0 grams” of trans fat per serving, potentially leading consumers to underestimate their trans fat consumption."
- beamatronic 12y agoFrom the article: "...manufacturers are permitted to label products containing between 0 and 0.5 g of trans fat per serving as '0 grams' in the United States" I'd like that to be on the label
- sp332 12y agoMy favorite is Tic Tacs. They're basically pure sugar, but they say "Sugar 0g" on the nutrition label. Because the whole mint is less than 0.5g so they round to 0. Edit: this is an FDA rule. The boxes I've seen include a note at the bottom explaining that there is some sugar.
- thaumasiotes 12y agoMy favorite is Triscuits. They break down fat content into (I think) saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated, or possibly some other trichotomy. The sum of the by-category numbers is quite far below the total for "fat".
- myhf 12y agoSearch page for "cis": no results. Search page for "saturated": no results.