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Hydrogenated Oil

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  • 15-03-2017 11:38am
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    Oasis1974
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    Saw a Peanut butter in my local supermarket called Resse and it contained Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil. Wondering the law on this type of processed oil in ingredients now? I thought America banned any food products with this oil maybe not? Its negative effects on health is widely documented now lesser so with Palm oil. https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=292894630


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    rubadub
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    This tesco soup has it
    https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=252971040

    this hersheys thing has partially hdyrogenated

    https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=286638482

    When I search on tesco most products are saying "no hydrogenated veg oil", so all this would suggest it is legal.

    I would have wondered more about the genetically modified stuff.
    Ingredients

    Peanuts (89%) Sugar*, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Cottonseed and Soybean* Oils), Salt, Peanut Oil (1%), Molasses*, Emulsifier: E471, Cornstarch*, *Produced from Genetically Modified Sugar, Corn and Soya Beans


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    CantGetNoSleep
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    It is a difficult area of food labelling and not always understood. Hydrogenation is not a huge issue health wise - TFAs come about due to partial hydrogenation of vegetable oil (in order to keep saturated fatty acid levels down - you generally do not get this issue with full hydrogenation). Full or partial hydrogenation must be labelled.

    A lot (but not all) of the issues with palm oil are either overstated, or would not change at all due to substitution to another oil.


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    two wheels good
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    CantGetNoSleep wrote: »
    It is a difficult area of food labelling and not always understood. Hydrogenation is not a huge issue health wise - TFAs come about due to partial hydrogenation of vegetable oil (in order to keep saturated fatty acid levels down - you generally do not get this issue with full hydrogenation). Full or partial hydrogenation must be labelled.

    A lot (but not all) of the issues with palm oil are either overstated, or would not change at all due to substitution to another oil.

    A cursory web search will list grave health concerns about (partially and fully ) hydrogenated oil.

    A big difficulty with labelling is that the consumer cannot be confident that products which include hydrogenated oil are labelled accordingly.

    As for palm oil; regardless of the topic of it's possible health concerns the huge increase in palm oil plantations has led to terrible environmental destruction - the loss of forest and habitat, usually by burning. I'd say that a good enough reason to avoid it when possible.


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