How to identify trans fatty acids in food

How to tell if foods contain trans fats? Yang Yuexin said that everyone must develop the habit of carefully reading food ingredient labels and nutrition labels when shopping. This is the best way to protect themselves. If the ingredients contain "margarine","shortening","hydrogenated vegetable oil","partially hydrogenated vegetable oil","hydrogenated fat","hydrogenated vegetable oil","solid vegetable oil","butter","artificial butter", etc., then the food contains a certain amount of trans fat.

Fan Zhihong said that while paying attention to the ingredients on food labels, we should also pay attention to whether these ingredients are at the front or back (generally, the order of raw materials on the food ingredient list is arranged according to the amount added from more to less). If these ingredients containing trans fats are "ranked at the top", then you have to be careful. There must be many "harms" among them. If these raw materials are ranked below seventh and eighth, there is no need to worry too much.

In addition, many foods, especially imported foods, now have nutrition labels. You can pay attention to the fact that under the fat column, the trans fat content of each serving of food or per 100 grams of food will be clearly written. If the trans fat content per 100 grams of food is less than 2 grams, it is considered relatively healthy. If this number is 0, that would be even better.

In addition to buying packaged food in supermarkets, everyone should also be careful when eating in restaurants. If you find that the oil used in stir-frying or stews is particularly sticky and easy to solidify, you need to be particularly vigilant. It may also contain a large amount of trans fat. (Editor in charge: Tian Tian)