Goddammit. Check the back of the animal crackers (that I give to my toddler niece) box and see interesterified soybean oil. The internet tells me its actually a more harmful substitute for trans fats. Anyone hear about this?
Just did a quick Pubmed, doesn’t look all that promising (at least in regards to IE-18:0 and IE-16:0, or stearic and palmitic acids). However I am too lazy and ADHD at the moment to look into it further, so I’ll just leave these here and hopefully somebody can pick up from there.
And today I learned I hate Cambridge journal, as even with university access they won’t let me view the whole review article.
[quote]silverhydra wrote:
Just did a quick Pubmed, doesn’t look all that promising (at least in regards to IE-18:0 and IE-16:0, or stearic and palmitic acids). However I am too lazy and ADHD at the moment to look into it further, so I’ll just leave these here and hopefully somebody can pick up from there.
And today I learned I hate Cambridge journal, as even with university access they won’t let me view the whole review article.
Eyes glaze immediately.
Thanks to the mod who edits subject lines to make them more useful/interesting.
http://www.stop-trans-fat.com/interesterified-fat.html <-this is where my research began and ended. Obviously its not the most scientific of websites but they seem pretty pissed.
“The bottom line is thisâ?¦ Early scientific reports – one of which was released in mid-January 2007 by joint-researchers from Malaysia and the UK – suggest that interesterified fat is far more harmful than trans fats.”
My edit didn’t show up, so I’ll just make a new post.
The abstracts mentioned ‘high-doses’ of IE-18:0 and other, I couldn’t read the amount as cambridge journal doesn’t grant me access (despite being at a university, I now hate them). However, is the amount of IE fatty acids all that significant in animal crackers?
It is probably better to have none from what I am seeing, but I doubt it would be that concerning unless bags of them were eaten per day.
A (knowledgable) friend told me that our bodies are incapable of disposing of trans fats (and perhaps these new ones) meaning that they accumulate over time.
If that is true I’d like to not start feeding them to a three year old.
If that is incorrect information I will relax a little.
[quote]Eli B wrote:
A (knowledgable) friend told me that our bodies are incapable of disposing of trans fats (and perhaps these new ones) meaning that they accumulate over time.
If that is true I’d like to not start feeding them to a three year old.
If that is incorrect information I will relax a little.[/quote]
You metabolize trans fats just like any other fats, the same with interesterified. It just isn’t the most metabolically beneficial process in comparison to the metabolism of other fats.
So relax a little 