Consuming trans fats, especially those from hydrogenated oils, increases your LDL cholesterol. As there is no real nutritional benefit to including hydrogenated oil in your diet, doctors recommend ...

Partially hydrogenated oil is also much cheaper than butter, lard, or other semi-solid fats like palm oil. Trans fats also take much longer to go rancid than traditional fats, making partially ...

The group used their Food Scores database to analyze more than 87,000 foods for trans fat-containing ingredients: most famously partially hydrogenated oil. Seeing that phrase on an ingredient list ...

Artificially creating saturated fat through hydrogenation is unhealthy, but it's worse when the unsaturated fat is only partially hydrogenated converting it into trans fat. Partial hydrogenation ...

Trans fatty acids or trans fats are formed when manufacturers turn liquid oils into solid fats. Think shortening and hard margarine. Manufacturers create trans fats via a process called hydrogenation.

Trans fats are found in two forms — natural, which occur in some animal products and aren’t considered harmful, and artificial, which are hydrogenated vegetable oils and have serious health ...

Trans fat was the first man-made fat to become part of our food supply more than a century ago when a German scientist presented Procter & Gamble with ways to add hydrogen to cottonseed oil.

How are they formed? And what's so bad about them? Get the stats on the new fat on the block. Solid shortening, the thick white paste that made your grandmother's pie crust so flaky, was created ...

By Kerri-Ann Jennings, M.S., R.D. From cereal bars to oatmeal, these foods have a trans fat content that may surprise you. 1. French Fries Many restaurants and fast-food joints fry their french ...

Trans fat consumption has declined significantly in the last 10 years — dropping 78% between 2003 and 2012. Yet, an FDA estimate from 2013, the latest year for which it has data, found people ...

What is a trans fat, and why is it so dangerous that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants it removed from the food supply? These are just some of the questions on the minds of diners as ...