Showing posts with label trans fats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trans fats. Show all posts

Study: Trans Fat Hides in at Least a Quarter of Supermarket Foods


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Photo Credit:http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/study-trans-fat-hides-in-at-least-a-quarter-of-supermarket-foods/

'A new analysis by Environmental Working Group has found that harmful artificial trans fatty acids lurk in more than 27 percent of more than 84,000 processed foods common in American supermarkets.  Another 10 percent contain ingredients likely to contain trans fat.


EWG analysts used information from EWG’s Food Scores database and mobile app to determine which foods contained partially hydrogenated oils and other trans fat containing-ingredients. The interactive, searchable tool rates more than 84,000 foods and 5,000 ingredients based on nutrition, ingredient and processing concerns.


In most cases, the products’ trans fat content on the nutrition label doesn’t add up. The reason: an obscure loophole in federal food labeling regulations that allows food processors to round off less than half a gram of trans fat per serving to zero.'
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