Calorie and fat comparisons for CoasunSA

This article summarized the nutritional differences between Coasun’s shortening alternative made with different liquid oils.  As mentioned in previous articles, CoasunSA can be made with any liquid vegetable oil or blend of oils. 

This enables you to tailor the nutritional profile of the fat in your products and manipulate the nutitrional claims and health claims the are presented with your product.

The table below summarized the nutritional information for a 100 gram sample of CoasunSA made with various oils including commonly available commodity oils and new fatty acid profile oils that are emerging.

By comparison typical partially hydrogenated shortenings containing trans and saturated fat have the following nutritional attributes:

By comparing CoasunSA made with commodity canola oil to typical shortening the dramatic difference in saturated and trans fat content is obvious.  CoasunSA contains significantly less saturated fat and virtually no trans fat. 

In the charts below CoasunSA made with canola oil is represented by the GREEN bar.

Caloric compparison between CoasunSA and typical shortenings per 100 gram sample

Saturated fat content comparison between CoasunSA and typical shortening per 100 gram sample

trans fat comparison between CoasunSA and typical shortening per 100 gram sample

Note:

All refined, bleached, and deodorized vegetable oils contain some trans fatty acids introduced by the deodorization process.  Typically vegetable oil refiners specification states that deodorized oil contains between 1% and 2% trans fatty acids.  In practice this may be less.

Trans fatty acid content in CoasunSA is even lower (roughly 40% less TFA) than what would normally be found in refined, bleached, and deodorized oils.