Trans fat in your diet.
Healthbolt: Where's the Trans Fat in your Diet coming from?
I think the french fries category is a bit surprising, I would have guessed it would be more than 8%. The rest I could have guessed, although you have to look hard in the first category for some of the trans fat, bread and crackers are hard to find with trans fat anymore.Average Daily Trans Fat Intake is 5.8 Grams or 2.6 Percent of Calories
- 40% - cakes, cookies, crackers, pies, bread, etc.
- 21% - animal products
- 17% - margarine
- 8% - fried potatoes
- 5% - potato chips, corn chips, popcorn
- 4% - household shortening
- 3% - salad dressing
- 1% - breakfast cereal
- 1% - candy
UPDATE: See the comments for concerns about the salad dressing numbers.
1 comments:
As a representative of the Association for Dressings & Sauces, I am happy to comment on your post relating to trans fat.
Trans fats are rarely found in salad dressings, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concurs. Liquid vegetable oils that are not partially hydrogenated are a primary ingredient in salad dressings. Other ingredients used in salad dressings contain only miniscule, if any, amounts of trans fat. However, some media continues to characterize salad dressings as a source of trans fat and attributes this information to the FDA, which is untrue. The Food and Drug Administration has publicly acknowledged that its earlier characterization of salad dressings as a substantial source of trans fat was inaccurate and has informed ADS of this fact and also made several corrections to its Web site to inform consumers that salad dressings are not a source of trans fat. Visit the following link to see how FDA is changing the information. http://www.fda.gov/fdac/departs/2003/503_word.html
On another positive note, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and Louisiana State University published a study in the September 2006 Journal of the American Dietetic Association that found that those who eat salads, raw vegetables and salad dressing have considerably higher levels of vitamins C, E, B6 and folic acid, all key nutrients in promoting a healthy immune system. Researchers from Iowa State University and Ohio State University published a study in the August 2004 American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that showed eating salad vegetables with some added fat, such as full-fat salad dressings, promotes the absorption of lycopene, alpha- and beta-carotenes, all of which aid in the fight against cancer and heart disease. Some salad dressings also contain alpha-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid that may protect against fatal heart attacks, and Vitamin E, which has been shown to be beneficial for the heart health of women.
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