Contents:
- Medical Video: How to Read Nutrition Facts | Food Labels Made Easy
- Food labeled no trans fatcan still contain trans fat
- Dangers of labeled food products zero trans fat
- How do you find out the trans fat content in a 'trans fat free' food product?
- Then what kind of food or beverage product should I choose?
Medical Video: How to Read Nutrition Facts | Food Labels Made Easy
Maybe you've heard of trans fat (trans fat) is fat that is bad for health. Don't be surprised if nowadays many food manufacturers give labels zero trans fat or trans fat free on their products. But is it true that these food products do not contain trans fat at all? Are these products healthy for consumption?
Food labeled no trans fatcan still contain trans fat
Trans fats are unsaturated fats that turn into fatty acids when food processing takes place - usually this happens in packaged food and beverages. Trans fats have properties that damage the body, even worse than saturated fats. This type of fat can increase the risk of heart disease and various other chronic diseases.
When you find out that trans fat evil, maybe you will switch to a food or drink that is believed to be free trans fat. But do you really believe that there are packaged foods that do not contain trans fats at all? Like the advertisements you often hear, food is free from trans fat one of them is margarine. But is that true?
In fact, there is no packaged food that can be free from this type of bad fat. Free label trans fat what you find doesn't mean the product really doesn't contain trans fat at all. The Food and Drug Administration, United States, allows manufacturers to give free labels trans fat if the product contains less than 0.5 grams of fat.
Dangers of labeled food products zero trans fat
Indeed levels trans fat the product ‘is free trans fat' not too much. However, this is actually dangerous. Many people don't realize that the product actually still has trans fat in it and think it's okay if you consume it in a rather large amount. In fact, the more you eat foods that are 'trans fat free' the more trans fat that you get - and you don't realize it.
While the maximum limit trans fat which can be consumed and entered into the body is around 2 grams per day. And many people exceed the consumption limit trans fat-in one day because they don't realize what that means zero trans fat or trans fat free.
How do you find out the trans fat content in a 'trans fat free' food product?
The easiest way to find out what level trans fat in a food or beverage product is to look at the composition. Avoid foods that contain partially hydrogenated fats or oils. If you see the material in the composition of the food or beverage product that you purchased, then the product can be ascertained to contain trans fat - even though he said free trans fat.
Then what kind of food or beverage product should I choose?
Indeed, products that claim to be "trans fat free" are better than those that don't have the label. But you must also consider in choosing products that contain fat is the portion of food from the food products that you buy. even though you've tried to avoid it trans fat by choosing products that are free trans fat, still it won't change anything if the portion you eat is too much. Trans fat will accumulate and you are still at high risk for experiencing various chronic diseases, such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, and so on.
