The Cook and The Cardiologist Chocolate Too! Diet:
No Sugar, No Flour, Low Fat *&* Low Carb (and Brownies, Pancakes, Muffins, Cakes, all baked goodies!)
Low in transfats, but high in saturated fat
Low in transfats, but 2 g sat. fat per tbsp
Are “Healthy” Margarines really healthy?
You’ve been scrutinizing labels - right? - but they still make it hard to understand. The aggressively marketed brand names are “Promise” this and “Healthy” that, but …
Wait. First, a little experiment. Leave your margarine or buttery spread out for an hour, then look at it. Is it still solid? Probably.
Because margarine must contain either saturated fat or hydrogenated/trans fats to stay solid; otherwise it would be yellow soup at room temperature.
And how could you sell buttery spread if it’s goopy? Read websites competing for your dollars. They gleefully tell you that they don’t use trans fats, but do they tell you how much saturated fat they use? Gee, they left that out!
Again: margarines and spreads must contain EITHER saturated fat or hydrogenated/trans fats, or they'd be liquid at room temperature.
Vegetable Oil Refinery
To hydrogenate: You bubble hydrogen through tubes into liquid oil, making it solid.
If you bubbled hydrogen through tubes into olive oil, you’d hydrogenate the olive oil. It would become a solid trans fat.
What if a buttery spread says it has No Trans Fat and much less saturated fat than other brands?
Like 2 grams saturated fat per tbsp? Will you eat more than 1 tbsp? Most folks don’t quit at one level tablespoon.
Until the government catches up with the powerful food lobby, if ever, you’re best off sticking to olive oil & canola oil. Sunflower and safflower oil are also very good.
Keep your oils liquid. If you really miss that yummy buttery spread (who doesn’t?), maybe try fat free cream cheese? It’s delicious.
P.S. Hydrogenated and trans fat mean the same thing.
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Healthy 4 cooking:
Olive & canola oil
For spreads try fat free cream cheese, sugar free preserves.
For baking: Milled Flaxseed instead of margarine or butter
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