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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] healthy fats
  • Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:05:26 -0800

Trans fat and hydrogenated are the answer. They're the bad guys, or so
"they" say. I don't like the idea of playing games with stuff and it's why
I won't buy lard anymore either since it is now hydrogenated. I also don't
like soybeans and cottonseed (high in pesticides, GMOs, etc.). So, for most things I simply use butter. Once in a blue I'll get an urge to make something with shortning and that's when I buy the Spectrum.

Lynda
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers
so we can identify their corporate sponsors.
----- Original Message ----- From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

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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