During the recent surge of Girl Scout Cookies, I looked at the ingredients of the back of one of the boxes. The label states that there are zero grams of trans-fat. However under the ingredients, the first ingredient is sugar followed by partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. My question is how do the companies, who produce the food, get away with putting no grams of trans-fat yet, have the partially hydrogenated oils in their ingredients?
2007-02-25 07:54:03 · 3 answers · asked by splittheoceans 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
As the second ingredient though, you would think that there would be more than .5 grams.
2007-02-25 09:51:49 · update #1
When it comes to food labels, "zero" is NOT the same thing as "none." Obviously, in regular conversation, saying something has zero trans fats means that it has no trans fats, but food labeling regulations allow them to put zero if the amount is very small (less than .5 grams). I believe they can only say "no trans fats" if there really are none of them at all, so look for that, or keep looking for partially hydrogenated oil in the ingredients list.
2007-02-25 08:26:40 · answer #1 · answered by Geoffrey F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
i think that they can say no grams of trans-fat if it has under a .5 grams of trans-fat in the making of the food.
2007-02-25 16:12:39 · answer #2 · answered by onthemove1022 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That does sound deceiving. Wouldn't hurt to write the Girl Scouts organization and tell them you find this unacceptable in the labeling.
2007-02-25 16:00:30 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋