The World Health Organisation advise that trans fats should be banned back in the 90s. There are now no trans fats in any of the foods in the UK and US except for these naturally produced trans fats found in dairy or certain imported foods. The question is do we return to the use of unhealthy animal fats or do we find alternative industrial processes to create new hard fats?
Trans fats have a bad reputation. But we now know a lot more about these fats than we did when the first horror stories about them emerged.
So, based on the latest science, just how worried should we be?
Listen to today’s short episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition to find out.
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