FDA's ban on trans fats puts ConAgra, other food giants to the taste test

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.livewellnebraska.com/nutrition/fda-s-ban-on-trans-fats-puts-conagra-other-food/article_c2da6274-1436-11e5-8a45-63f71ad1cdfe.html

Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 1:15 am | Updated: 10:04 am, Wed Jun 17, 2015.
By Barbara Soderlin / World-Herald staff writer

Food manufacturers say they’re already well on the way to eliminating now-banned trans fats from their product lineups.

The question is whether consumers’ favorite products will still taste — and cost — the same. ConAgra and other manufacturers are working to make sure the answer is yes.

The Omaha-based packaged food giant said it already has removed “the vast majority” of partially hydrogenated oils — or trans fats — from its foods. More than 90 percent of its food doesn’t contain the oils, it says.

Now, it’s experimenting with taste and texture for the remaining products in its lineup that contain trans fats, which the Obama administration on Tuesday banned, declaring them a threat to public health.

FULL story at link.

[Sunlei]

1. the bread, over processed, never molds, stuff they call bread. Corps act fast, it must be deadly.

or they're afraid of lawsuits.

[safeinOhio]

2. I don't know if this is legal, but

I've tried frying foods in lard and it taste great.

[Sunlei]

3. bacon fat is even better :P

I think technology advances allow the meat industry to take that 'used to be lard' chunks of fat and retexture it into much more profitable 'meat'.

'all beef' you know, even the eyeballs, blood and hooves and parts that used to be dog food are 'fixed-up' to feed to humans. It's "all beef" is all the label has to say.

[safeinOhio]

4. Would have been hard get enough

bacon fat to fry fish in. Beer batter and lard.

[madokie]

5. I've got a container of Lard

and have been frying my breakfast in it for a couple months. One of the secrets of a good restaurant is that they some use lard.

[AngryAmish]

6. Last winter I ground my own meatballs

And fried them in heritage, acorn fed pork lard.

I still am making sausage with that lard. O bought 10 lbs.