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Mmm! Science-y!
Amid all the hubbub about trans fats, newspapers nationwide are testing trans-free oils in their own recipes to see if the healthier versions measure up. The results vary as widely as the tasters themselves.
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Burger King's $1 ham and cheese omelet breakfast sandwich with honey 'butter' sauce
And Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Vegetable Mono & Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate (A Preservative), Annato (Color), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Calcium Disodium Edta Added To Protect Flavor,...
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Are animal products used in refried beans/pinto beans by El Pollo Loco or Taco Bell?
This is from McDonald’s website: French Fries: Potatoes, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor (wheat and milk derivatives)*, citric acid (preservative), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate...
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KOSHER VERSION OF POP TARTS
Apple Cinnamon, as an example: Ingredients: Apple filling (corn syrup, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, crackermeal, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, modified wheat starch, dried apples, malic acid, natural and artificial...
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Ben and Jerrys "ALL NATURAL??????
hydrogenated soybean oil ( ie: trans-fats) - Then I looked in the freezer at my B&J S’mores ice cream- same thing Trans Fats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Therefore, is it really All- natural if it contains fats that have gone...
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Hmm. Safeway "Eating Right"???
I don’t think you read the label correctly. The first ingredient on every pocket sandwich label I looked at (safeway.com) is “flour blend.” Further, several of the sandwiches didn’t have partially or fully...
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Cracklin' oat bran
a couple of issues here: - i really doubt Kellogg’s would give you the info while the product is still available for purchase - do you really have access to all the exact same ingredients (e.g. partially hydrogenated soybean...
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Does Slimfast contain transfats?
. The ingredients list shows "hydrogenated soybean oil", and I recall reading somewhere that "hydrogenated oil" is a legally-allowed euphemism in the US for PARTIALLY hydrogenated oil. Am I right? Wrong? Should I try to wean my...
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Pack It In
The Today show’s recent feature on healthier choices for kids’ school lunchboxes provides a nice introductory primer for the burgeoning line of snack-y, grab-and-go foods produced by natural foods makers.
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Crisco has reformulated to "trans-fat free" in its whole product line.
After trying a launch of alternative “trans-free” line in 2004 based on safflower oil, Crisco has replaced its flagship product with a trans free shortening based on soybean and cottonseed oils, using...
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unbaked pizza dough
just checked the trader joe’s pizza dough ingredient list and nothing artificial, altho it does have vegetable shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean oil) listed. Try Zach’s for pizza dough, I know I’ve been...
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Trans Fats
Lately there’s been a lot of talk about the evils of trans fats — especially "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil," which is found in countless items on the shelves of your local supermarkets, in McDonald’s...
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Roast Beef sandwiches?
Starch, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Salt, Sugar Hydrolyzed Plant Proteins (Corn Gluten, Soy Protein, and Wheat Gluten), Beef Flavor Extract (Beef Stock, Yeast Extract, Lactic Acid Powder [Lactic Acid, Calcium lactate],...
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Where to find frozen pizza dough and puff pastrydough
Many supermarket brands of puff pastry aren’t made with butter. Pepperidge Farm puff pastry, for example, is vegan-friendly; the “butter” is shortening (partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil). As far...
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Southern Style Chicken at McDonald's?
, natural flavors (plant source), extractives of paprika. Prepared in Vegetable Oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, partially...
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