I'm sure most of you have been exposed to the media covering on this very topic the past few months. The State of New York is planned to ban trans fat by April 2007 thanks to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and many major food chains are replacing trans fat with an alternative, less harmful to the human body.
I'm really
thankful that zoedragon wrote this thread back in
October 2004 because I then started to see the back of the nutritional facts since and disregarded snacks that contained a surprising amount of trans fat.
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Originally Posted by zoedragon  In order to prolong shelf life, companies developed partially hydrogenated oils. |
Trans fat are common in retail packaged cookies, chips, and bakery goods because of the expiration.