{"id":753,"date":"2011-01-20T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T04:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=753"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:42:46","slug":"trans-fats-in-commonly-sold-plant-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/01\/20\/trans-fats-in-commonly-sold-plant-oils\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-fats in commonly sold plant oils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seem to be serious risks in some food oils that are commonly considered healthy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnolls.org\/812\/the-term-vegetable-oil-is-false-advertising\/\">This report<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>hexane processing strips the remaining nutrients from the oil, and turns a significant quantity of polyunsaturated fats into inflammatory, artery-clogging trans fats!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hexane processing is apparently common for Canola oil, soybean oil, and other plant-based oils (but not olive oil). Trans-fat levels have been measured at <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1745-4522.1994.tb00244.x\/abstract\">0.56 to 4.2 percent<\/a> in commercial oils.<\/p>\n<p>Since FDA-regulated labels are only accurate to about 0.5 grams, and oils are often labeled for 14g serving sizes, a 1 or 2 percent trans-fat content would apparently show up as zero. I suspect those levels are more harmful than most additives that the FDA has banned from foods.<\/p>\n<p>The bottled Canola oil I buy from Trader Joe&#8217;s says it&#8217;s expeller pressed &#8211; no solvents used, so I&#8217;m still guessing it&#8217;s healthy, but I&#8217;ll try harder to avoid processed foods containing plant oils. (There a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/medical\/toxins\/canola.asp\">misleading arguments against Canola oil<\/a> that should be ignored).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seem to be serious risks in some food oils that are commonly considered healthy. This report says: hexane processing strips the remaining nutrients from the oil, and turns a significant quantity of polyunsaturated fats into inflammatory, artery-clogging trans fats! Hexane processing is apparently common for Canola oil, soybean oil, and other plant-based oils (but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-diet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-c9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}