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Introduction
Trans fats are actually a type of unsaturated fat. One is produced industrially and the other is found naturally in products associated with women and animals like cows and sheeps who ferment their feed in the digestion process. These trans fats were originally used as a low-cost way to harden vegetable oils and thereby produce hard fats that firstly had a lower saturated fat content so were perceived at the time to be healthier. They also provided cheaper than other hard fats such as butter or tropical oil like cocoa butter for example.