Comments on Jenn's review of All-Vegetable Shortening
All-Vegetable Shortening
Description: Vegetable oil with 50% less saturated fat.
Avoid, eschew and disdain...
Last year, Crisco announced that they reformulated their vegetable shortening to remove all transfats. This is great news for the masses of folks in the US who still eat this stuff and who don't know why transfats are unhealthy.
I'll give you several reasons why you should not use Crisco vegetable shortening:
1. Proctor & Gamble does not have a policy against animal testing. Please don't purchase P&G products
2. "Vegetable Shortening" consists of fully hydrogenated cottonseed oil and some soybean oil. (Since when is cotton food?). Transfats increase your total cholesterol and lower your "good" HDL cholesterol.
Even without transfats (found in partially hydrogenated oils), fully hydrogenated fats are not good for you. Fully hydrogenated fat contains an artificial fat known as interesterified fat which has been shown to increase volunteer subjects blood sugar by 20 percent while simultaneously lowering "good" HDL cholesterol.
MORE READING:
http://www.treelight.com/health/nutrition/PartiallyHydrogenatedOils.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/crisco
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proctor_and_Gamble
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco
http://nutrition.about.com/od/askyournutritionist/f/fully_hydro.htm
http://lowfatcooking.about.com/od/healthandfitness/p/trnasfats.htm
Jenn's keywords: hydrogenated fats, transfats
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