Tag: dietary fats

The FDA’s Trans Fats Ban: Public Good vs. Easy Formulations vs. Making Profits

The FDA’s Trans Fats Ban: Public Good vs. Easy Formulations vs. Making Profits

The FDA has given us three years to come up with something other than Trans Fats in food, having taken the GRAS label (‘generally recognized as safe’) from it. This has been a long time coming as partially hydrogenated oils, which make up a significant 

The Skinny on Dietary Fats: Saturated, Unsaturated, and Trans Fats

The Skinny on Dietary Fats: Saturated, Unsaturated, and Trans Fats

While dietary fat is something every body needs, there are good and bad choices in choosing ones to cook with. Here are the basic types, examples and substitutions. Dietary fat is broken into these major categories: saturated, unsaturated (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated), Trans fats, and dietary