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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

Things that are not organic have GMO products, usually, soybeans for sure.  
Cotton is the most highly sprayed crop on the planet.
Jeanne
tnhillwoman
North East TN zone 6
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: EarthNSky 
  To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 4:45 PM
  Subject: Re: [Homestead] healthy fats


  The concern here is heart healthiness...
  I like comparing products.  I compared my mayo to theirs,,,,mine 
  actually came up better, and Lynda, I am a dyed in the wool Dukes 
  (Sauers) mayo person.  MMMMM...

  The shortening...

  I'm comparing it to Butter flavored Crisco from my kitchen...

  Crisco label

  Cal 110  Fat Cal 110
  Total fat 12g
  Sat fat 3g
  Trans Fat 1.5g
  Polyunsat fat 3g
  Monounsat fat 4g
  Vit A 4% from addition of Beta Carotene in butter flavored
  Vit E 15%

  Partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil

  Manufactured by JM Smucker Co.

  Smuckers also apparently has a Smucker's Baking Healthy product that is 
  part oil and part shortening, but I haven't found the info on that 
  yet...should be an interesting comparison.
  --------------------------------------------------------
  Spectrum Nutritional Info

  Cal 110   Fat cal 110
  Fat 13
  Sat 6
  Trans Fat 0g
  Poly 2g
  Mono 5g
  Chol

  No Beta carotene therefore no Vit A or Vit E???
  Palm oil is usually red because of beta carotene, and contains 
  tocotrienal, so I do not understand why this product would not contain 
  Vit A or Vit E?  Why would they remove those chemicals?


  Organic palm oil

  manufactured Spectrum Organics
  $7 for 24 oz


  A couple of years ago there was something about palm oil plantations and 
  rainforest destruction...can't remember the details, but I recall that 
  the loss of rainforests was blamed on the US love of fried foods.

  I don't know what I am missing, but this shortening doesn't seem 
  healthier to me.



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