Interesterified - Say What?

For those optimist who actually believed food producers had removed the trans-fatty acids from our foods, I hate to bust your bubble but . .

New name, same ole stuff. Only this time, it's a little worse. In this article posted by Jenny Thompson in the April 2nd addition of HSI e-Alert, Interesterified, is coming to a label near you. Interesterified is the name they've given the replacement for partially hydrogenated oils that produce trans-fatty acids.

In a study published in Nutrition & Metabolism about a year ago, researchers fed diets containing different fats to volunteers and found both trans-fat and interesterified fat adversely altered blood glucose and metabolism of cholesterol (increasing HDL/LDL ratio). In fact, interesterified fat raised glucose 20 percent in one month.

Food manufacturers have just put the same old pig in a brand new dress and somehow managed to make it WORSE than before.

Until next time, all the best,

B.J.
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