The Trans Fat Free Story Continues...

Continuing on this trans fat free issue in the fast food outlets…the Globe and Mail reported that every major fast food company is trying hard to start using non-hydrogenated oils for their fried foods. Ah ha! As predicted in my last entry - if one starts…the others will follow. The main concern of course is the change in taste – will these products still pack the same flavour punch without these oils? Will the consumer notice a difference? That’s what the companies are struggling with – to maintain the ‘flavour’ standard of their food. (cough, using that term lightly for some menu items…)

With the recent research done by Globe and Mail and CTV (see Ms. Pepper’s blog entry here), there is even more of a signal to the fast food industry to hurry it up to develop these trans fat free oils. With the same frying oil being shipped to all franchises, this will keep the trans fat content of their products at a standard, instead of having a varying amount from outlet to outlet. That will also be a sigh of relief, since what we read on their nutrition information from booklets or their websites will be what we will be eating when we are in the store, whether you are savouring those chicken mcnuggets in Kelowna or Montreal.