Consumer perception of fully hydrogenated fats is at their bad for us. So the UK food industry responded to consumer demand and found alternative processes that would be considered acceptable to the consumer. All hydrogenation there is a different process which changes a liquid unsaturated oil to a saturated fat called steric acid. It doesn't produce trans fats however because it does form a saturated fat we know that it may have some unfavorable health effects but certainly nowhere in the region that a trans fats would.
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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