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I see that some places and restaurants are phasing out cooking food in trans fat, McDonald's being one.
Does anyone cook food in trans fat at home? Do you notice a better taste than cooking with no trans fat?
Or for that matter do you notice any difference in the food you get at restaurants now that switched to banning trans fat?
The matter of trans fats doesn't relate to the flavor of food. It relates to blockage of the arteries, which is the reason for the ban. What you cook foods in can change the flavor, but in the vast majority of cases only very slightly.
Actually, I think it's the saturated animal fats that are supposed to be the artery blocking ones. the trans fats are more processed and are implicated in cancer....i like cooking with coconut oil, it has a high flash point so foods get nice and crisp, and it's perfect for pancakes.
There is a difference in flavor depending on the kind of fat you use, even between so-called "bad" and so-called "good" fats. Thus, I will use olive oil for some things and canola for others - the flavor is different. You don't use the same fats for frying and baking, either, for that reason - olive oil in baking gives an "odd" flavor.
Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, this is just another in a long, long line of health fads. I've watched them come around and those things that are verboten at one time turn out to be health foods at another. You watch this dance long enough, you decide to pay attention to your own body and not what the latest study (that will be disproved by the next latest study when someone needs to publish) has to say.
When it comes to fat, trans fat is considered by some doctors to be the worst of them all because of its double-barreled impact on your cholesterol levels. Unlike other fats, trans fat — also called trans fatty acids — both raises your "bad" (LDL) cholesterol and lowers your "good" (HDL) cholesterol.
And that leads to clogged arteries. The stuff is bad for you.
Butter and Olive Oil! Yum, and I think they are going back to that as a rule of thumb. It's better to use a little butter than a lot of spread. But, like the previous poster said, fad fittness and health varies and contradicts it self every five years. A lot of it depends on what they are trying to sell. When beef sales go down, they advertise lean healthy beef, when milk is down, it's a healthy weight loss drink, etc.....
On taste I notice a lot of difference between corn oil, veggie oil, butter, olive oil, peanut oil, coc oil and lard. They are all used in specific foods to inhance taste. You would fry corn tortillas in corn oil, olive oil in speg. sause and meats, peanut oil and coconut oil are a must for the right flavor in most asian cooking. If you changed these oils around the food could taste rather nasty. lol On the french fry front, I do notice the difference and no longer like McD's fries. They just don't have that taste you want in a big, hot, box of fast food to me. But, I shouldn't be eating them anyway, right. ha ha
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