Click to view larger image. The grain-based foods industry has made strides in removing partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) from its products. The “icing on the cake,” or complete elimination from the ...

Picture it: a kitchen cupboard filled with whole wheat crackers, sugar-free cereal, peanut butter and pretzel rods. Sound healthy? Read the labels. According to Dr. Robert Lawrence, associate dean and ...

Health Canada has unveiled proposals to prohibit the use of partially hydrogenated oils - a key source of harmful trans fats in foods - by summer 2018 (aligning with the US deadline) by adding them to ...

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2014 - A wide-ranging group of food-related organizations is urging the Obama administration to have the FDA take another look at the preliminary determination it made last fall ...

Many restaurants and fast-food joints fry their french fries, fish, chicken and doughnuts in partially hydrogenated oils and shortenings, making these foods filled with trans fats. The FDA is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've come a long way from the 70s and 80s, when all fat was considered bad for us. Today, we know that many fats, including those ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a direct final rule on August 9 to solidify the agency’s June 2015 determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) are no longer “generally ...

The partial hydrogenation of oils mostly may be in the past, but exhibitors at the Institute of Food Technologists’ annual meeting and food exposition still brought up the term July 13-16 in Chicago.

If completely hydrogenated, they become stearic acid. The commercial use of partially hydrogenation of oils began in the early 1900s. The exact fatty acid composition of the partially hydrogenated oil ...

On the face of it, the FDA’s proposal to revoke the GRAS status of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) - the source of most of the ‘artificial’ trans fats in the US food supply - seems like a ...