To spot trans fat in your favorite foods, look at the ingredients for "partially hydrogenated oil." It's now largely understood that artificial trans fat is the worst kind of fat you can eat.

Until labels give us trans fat information, be sure to check the ingredient list for the words "partially hydrogenated oil" or "shortening." If they are in the first three ingredients for a ...

I was surprised to see that an Italian-style breadcrumbs label lists partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Perhaps equally surprising were some products I expected to contain trans fats that did not.

In 2015, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) came out with a new position statement regarding partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs)—the major source of artificial trans fat in our foods ...

Trans fat is a type of dietary fat that's solid at room temperature. It's often added to processed foods to improve texture ...

The only way of finding out if a food contains trans fats is to look out for 'hydrogenated vegetable oil', 'hydrogenated fat' or 'partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (or fat)'. "Trans fats are a ...

Some countries—including the United States—have already banned commercial use of partially hydrogenated (solidified) oils, the main source of trans fats. Trans fats, or trans-fatty acids ...

It's likely a naturally occurring type of trans fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) unless you see partially hydrogenated oil on the ingredients list. Human-made trans fats are very unhealthy.

If any ingredient list on food packaging includes “partially hydrogenated oils ... manufacturers have replaced trans fats with saturated fats, such as palm oil or palm kernel oil, in products ...

Kennedy Jr. recently praised the fast food chain Steak 'n Shake for deciding to cook fries in beef tallow (rendered beef fat). Why did food chains move away from tallow to other oils in the first ...

Until labels give us trans fat information, be sure to check the ingredient list for the words "partially hydrogenated oil" or "shortening." If they are in the first three ingredients for a ...