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dholowisk...

M¢37 Funded By Mahalo ? | October 01, 2009 10:05 PM

How can something with partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in it claim to have 0g of trans fat?

I thought that trans fat came from partially hydrogenated oil? Or is this a trick of measuring, where the amount in one 'serving' is low enough that they're allowed to call it 0? or is there some process to remove the trans fat? or are they just lying?
I've noticed this on some food packaging recently and I can't figure it out.

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soundboy

October 01, 2009 11:10 PM

I remember reading somewhere that if the amount of partially hydrogenated oil is less than a certain amount such as .5 gram then they do not have to list it. This is a way they include the ingredient without having to list it as trans fat.

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• Thanks. That was kind of what I thought. I guess if the serving size was sma enough, just about anything could claim to have no trans fat.

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