Baking with less saturated fat...

Fats give baked goods the texture and flavor that we crave.  Melt-in your mouth pie crusts, tender, crispy, chewy cookies etc…  At the same time fats have high caloric impacts and fats that are typically used in baked goods are generally either hydrogenated and contain trans fat or have high levels of saturated fat, which can be harmful to our health. Saturated fats are found in animal products such as butter, lard...

130,000 deaths in Europe attributed to saturated f...

Research at hs the University of Liverpool suggests that the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its position with respect to saturated fat is responsible for 130,000 deaths in Europe per decade. Researchers at Liverpool argue that subsidies on food products high in saturated fat encourage excessive consumption and thereby lead to cardiovascular disease. According the group, the CAP spends much less...

Shortening substitutes and novel strategies for na...

Alejandro G. Marangoni Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G2W1, Canada Increasing public concerns over excessive saturated and trans fat intake from manufactured food products has lead to the search for alternative strategies to structure liquid oils into semisolid fats without addition of large amounts of unhealthy trans and saturated fats. Surfactant-like small molecules have been shown...

Saturated fat discussion at AOCS 2009...

Some highlighted points from the Saturated fats and Health: Fats and Feelings ‘hot topic symposia’ held at the AOCS conference 2009 in Orlando FL: -          Classifying saturated fatty acids as one group may be an oversimplification.  Each saturated fatty acid is digested differently by the human body depending on its carbon chain length, but in foods it would be difficult to separate these fatty...

Trans fat news coverage not enough to stop clogged...

News coverage about the harmful effects of trans fatty acids in food products will influence consumers to stop purchasing these products for a short time (3 or 4 weeks).However, news coverage does not seem to impact long term purchasing behaviour for a majority of the population. Although the RWJF study does not address saturated fats in food products it is reasonable to assume a similar phenomena could exist. Media...