Why does it say 0 g trans fats if the label also says "partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil"?

Question

How can it have a partially hydrogenated oil in it but be trans fat free? I am talking about skippy peanut butter...which ive known for years had trans fats - so I eat the natural kind --- but I've noticed this with a lot of the labeling. Things will have partial hydrogenates in them but they will claim 0g trans fats. What's the story here?

Answer 1

The great "zero grams of trans fat" labeling fraud

Many products now on supermarket shelves in the United States have labels that state that they contain zero grams of trans fats. However, you will see on the ingredients lists of many of those "zero grams of trans fat" products that they contain partially hydrogenated oil or shortening, in other words trans fat.

Isn't this fraudulent labeling? Yes, absolutely. If a label states that a product contains zero grams of trans fat, then it should contain zero grams of trans fat, right? Right.

But believe it or not, food companies are not only allowed to engage in this fraudulent labeling - they are legally required to do so.

Under FDA regulations "if the serving contains less than 0.5 gram [of trans fat], the content, when declared, shall be expressed as zero."

Suppose you eat a product that contains 0.4 grams of trans fat per serving and another that contains 0.3 grams of trans fat per serving. The labels state that each product contains zero grams of trans fat per serving, but you have in fact just eaten 0.7 grams of trans fat. You could eat products all day long that have zero grams of trans fat according to the labels, and end up eating 5 grams of trans fat or much more.

Changing this rule is a priority for BanTransFats.com. We are working on it.

Answer 2

Companies are allowed to put so much of something in a product and still keep the label saying 0g according the the US Food and Drug Administration.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3036399

Still, consumers should be aware that just because they don’t see trans fat on a product label it doesn’t necessarily mean that the product is trans-free,” says Robert H. Eckel, M.D., president of the American Heart Association and professor of medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. “For example, products with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat can still claim ‘zero grams of trans fat’ on their label. So just like with ‘fat-free’ foods, multiple servings of ‘zero trans fat’ and ‘zero saturated fat’ products can actually add up to more than 10 percent of daily calories.”

Answer 3

According to the Food and Drug Administration, if a product has .5g of fat or less in it then it is considered "fat free". This is why PAM Cooking Spray (which is 100% fat) can also be called "fat free". In other words, it doesn't literally have 0g of fat in it, but it's "close enough" for the FDA.

Answer 4

it truthfully relies upon on the producer. you basically would desire to examine the label which will record components, and contemporary regulations are requiring itemizing how lots trans fat, if any, is contemporary. authentic milk would not incorporate trans fat in any respect. those do not ensue of course. you will locate recipes to make your guy or woman soy milk, or basically stumble on a sort free of undesirable fat, or use yet another dairy option. each and every physique, not basically vegetarians, would desire to examine factor labels.

Answer 5

no animal fat