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Food Saturated Mono-unsaturated Poly-unsaturated As weight percent (%) of total fat; Cooking oils; Algal oil [1]: 4: 92: 4 Canola [2]: 8: 64: 28 Coconut oil: 87: 13: 0 Corn oil
Trans fat contents in various foods, ranked in g per 100 g [42] Food type Trans fat content shortenings 10–33 margarine, stick 6.2–16.8 [43] butter 2–7 whole milk 0.07–0.1 breads/cake products 0.1–10 cookies and crackers 1–8 tortilla chips 5.8 [43] cake frostings, sweets 0.1–7 animal fat 0–5 [44] ground beef 1
Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1] As foods vary by brands and stores, the figures should only be considered estimates, with more exact figures often included on product labels.
Thanks to a ruling by the FDA, it looks like trans fats are on the out. Trans fats occur when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil. The cholesterol-raising fat appears in many processed foods ...
[70] [71] The ordinance does not apply to prepackaged foods sold in the city, but did require restaurants in the city to stop frying food in trans fats by 1 September 2007. The ordinance also contained a provision going into effect one year later that barred trans fat from being used as an ingredient in commercial kitchens.
Fast food chains McDonald's and Burger King anticipated they would have to change from trans fats years ago. Burger King switched to trans fat free oil in 2008, but not before they were hit with a ...
Trans fats occur naturally in meat and milk from ruminants. The predominant kind of trans fat found in milk is vaccenic fatty acid. Trans fats may be also found in some industrially produced foods, such as shortenings obtained by hydrogenation of vegetable oils. In light of recognized scientific evidence, nutritional authorities consider all ...
Seafood chain Long John Silver's recently announced that its entire menu now has zero grams of trans fat due to a transition from partially hydrogenated cooking oils to 100 percent soybean oil in ...