You may have observed French Fries don't taste that good when made at home. I asked myself what is the difference and met with the same ingredient used in plenty in my childhood. Its the Hydrogenated Oil used as the choice of cooking media for deep-frying.
Details of adverse health effects can be found in wikipedia. In my calculations it is the biggest killer in our generation. It raises the number of heart patients and blood pressure patients and then they suffer from other adverse effects of poor blood flow in the body.
What surprises is that it is not yet been banned in totality. Its still available in packaged foods in California. Even if you are trying to buy a cooking Oil for deep-frying at my local Costco at Sunnyvale the only one available was partially hydrogenated.
So next time you take a bite of Doughnut or eat that nice cake or munch those Mixtures be careful about what you are eating. Also note that even though a packaged label states trans_fat per serving is 0 gm it may very well be 0.499 gm per serving, as they are allowed to do rounding. For you though a poison is a poison. The available replacement of trans_fat seems to be Palm Oil, which is solid at room temperature, though it has been found out that Palm oil is not a good vegetable oil to be used in cooking (because palm oil results in adverse changes in the blood concentrations of LDL and apolipoprotein B just as transfat does).
So try to cook and eat fresh, rather than those 6 month old packaged foods, tasting like fresh, using the ingredients unsafe for you.
Further faqs and details.
You can google "transfat consumption in world" to see: http://www.tfx.org.uk/page297.html
They have been repeatedly called the “low hanging fruit” in global prevention of cardiovascular disease.
http://www.tfx.org.uk/ has some good details too.
Unless we ban it in totality the Poison my come back to our dinner table, in one form or other, as it is a cheap tasty preservative.
Details of adverse health effects can be found in wikipedia. In my calculations it is the biggest killer in our generation. It raises the number of heart patients and blood pressure patients and then they suffer from other adverse effects of poor blood flow in the body.
What surprises is that it is not yet been banned in totality. Its still available in packaged foods in California. Even if you are trying to buy a cooking Oil for deep-frying at my local Costco at Sunnyvale the only one available was partially hydrogenated.
So next time you take a bite of Doughnut or eat that nice cake or munch those Mixtures be careful about what you are eating. Also note that even though a packaged label states trans_fat per serving is 0 gm it may very well be 0.499 gm per serving, as they are allowed to do rounding. For you though a poison is a poison. The available replacement of trans_fat seems to be Palm Oil, which is solid at room temperature, though it has been found out that Palm oil is not a good vegetable oil to be used in cooking (because palm oil results in adverse changes in the blood concentrations of LDL and apolipoprotein B just as transfat does).
So try to cook and eat fresh, rather than those 6 month old packaged foods, tasting like fresh, using the ingredients unsafe for you.
Further faqs and details.
You can google "transfat consumption in world" to see: http://www.tfx.org.uk/page297.html
They have been repeatedly called the “low hanging fruit” in global prevention of cardiovascular disease.
http://www.tfx.org.uk/ has some good details too.
Unless we ban it in totality the Poison my come back to our dinner table, in one form or other, as it is a cheap tasty preservative.
