What are some foods know to have trans fats?

Answer 1

Almost every fast food item that is fried has trans fat. In fact, some chains are starting to change the oil they use to decrease this problem. Here is a good site for you to look at for more info:

http://en.allexperts.com/e/t/tr/trans_fat.htm

Answer 2

Most prepackaged foods. Trans fats not only replace fat in recipes, it also serves as a food stabilizer and preservative.

Prepackaged:
breads
chips
crackers
cereals
cookies
muffins

And many more too numerous to list. Basically if the home made version is made with butter or oil, the prepackaged store version has trans fats.

The only way to avoid them is to read labels.

Also, many of the major fast food chains use trans fats for frying. The funny thing about this is that most of the chains switched from natural fats back in the 80's in response to the government stating that lard and butter was bad for you, now the "fix" is bad for you.

Go figure

Answer 3

When reading labels, look for "partially hydroginated" that means it has trans fats.
Fully hydroginated products do not have trans fats, though most labels don't appear to specify if it's partially or fully hydroginated.

Answer 4

trans fat are added to foods such as butter, chips, icecream