Fruit & Veggie Trail Mix Muffins...

Have a garden?  Love getting fresh produce from the farmer’s market?  Always looking for new ways to use up some veggies (or get them into your kid’s diet)?  Giant zucchini’s seems to be plentiful this year, and when they start growing it’s like they multiply overnight.  Here’s a great recipe that incorporates some garden fresh vegetables, fiber, and healthy fat – canola oil utilized in Coasun’s shortening...

Use Fresh Ontario Strawberries & Rhubarb in Co...

For those at home bakers that don’t have a scale….here’s a recipe for you!  Utilize Ontario’s fresh strawberries and rhubarb for this delicious cake to enjoy with vanilla frozen yogurt or coffee or tea 2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup rhubarb 1 cup strawberries 1 cup CoasunSA 2 cups white sugar 1 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. cinnamon 1 egg 1 tsp. vanilla extract Add all ingredients except for the...

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...

Soybean oil – a balance of dietary fats...

Soybean oil is the most abundant and least expensive vegetable oil produced in the Americas. Soybeans are grown and processed into oil in both North and South America supporting local farmers and the local agri-food industry. New varieties of soybean oil including low linolenic oil, and low linolenic – high oleic oil are quickly coming of stream to meet the demand of the food industry that requires healty fats...

Recipe for Decadent Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies...

Decadent Dark Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies This decadent dark chocolate oatmeal cookie has been created and showcased in the Baker’s Journal 2007 recipe book to allow for indulgence in a delicious treat while keeping health in mind.  This lab scale recipe utilizes food ingredients of Canadian origin to be trans fat free, low in saturated fat and a source of antioxidants, iron, fiber, Omega 3- DHA, and vitamin C. ...

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...

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...

Recipe for CoasunSA – Kicked-up Canadian Bro...

Low saturated fat, trans fat free brownie Kicked-Up Canadian Brownies This is a large or small scale brownie recipe that was featured in the Baker’s Journal 2008 recipe book.  These ‘Kicked up Canadian Brownies’  utilize CoasunSA to make delicious trans fat free low saturated fat fudgy brownies, something that is not possible with industry standard palm based shortenings- see the...