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Originally Posted by Lost Dog
Not true. Some have, but you have to actually check the ingredients, not just the nutrition labels. Nutrition label laws let you have transfats under a certain amount per serving and still be labeled zero.
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I was in the store the other day and most of them had partially hydrogenated vegetable or soybean oil.
Soybean oil and vegetable oil are reason enough not to have most margarine, btw. |
Thank you this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for! Here is another link I found for the less scientific amoungst us.
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/20...hink_again.php
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Originally Posted by hazeldazel
also keep in mind that a lot of manufacturers have switched out trans fats with "interestified" (sp?) fats which are just as bad.
I go with unsalted butter, the fat contents the same the crap content is less. I'm only eating maybe 1 tablespoon a day so big deal. I think people (especially parents) really need to watch their processed crap intake instead of worrying about butter.
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Excellent points. Found some links on interesterified fats. *You
almost spelled it right*
http://www.transfatfree.com/pages/ar...rified_fat.htm
http://diabetesnutritionblog.com/?s=interestification
So in conclusion butter remains better for you than the new and improved margarines dispite the true (but misleading) propoganda from margarine manufacturers.