Bad Food - Food to avoid.
This is bad for you, it clogs up your arteries much worse than animal fat. On radio 4 they were saying that before they invented hydrogenated fat people ate loads of animal fat but there was very little heart disease. They use it becasue it extends the shelf life, and it allows them to customise the texture of the product without spending much on ingredients.
The only way to get the ingredients in these products changed is to name and shame them, and stop buying them.
Some supermarkets are banning this from all their products, and some countries have banned it altogether.
Here is a list of food I have found that still contains it (and some alternatives).
| Contains Hydrogenated Fat | Does Not contain it |
| Asda Drinking Chocolate | Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate |
| Asda own brand chocolate | Sainsbury's own brand chocolate |
| Penguin biscuits | Breakaways |
| All Gravy granules? | Oxo and cornflour |
| Somerfield cheap ice-cream | Somerfield Cornish |
| Malteasers | Galaxy |
| Sainsbury's Malt bedtime drink | |
| Linda Macartney sausages | Pork Sausages |
| Quorn Sausages. | Beef Sausages |
| Toblerone | |
| Asda own make ice-cream | |
| STORK margarine | Sainsbury's Olive Margarine |
| Asda gravy granules | |
| Happy Shopper Custard Creams | |
Happy Shopper Bourbans |
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| Somerfield Cup Cakes | |
Somerfield Steak Pie |
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Chip Shop/Fast Food |
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| Sainsbury's Gravy Granules |
It is actually the TRANS FATS that are dangerous...
Products containing these fats, such as margarine, have been marketed as a low-cholesterol alternative to butter. Food labels that contain the words "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated" are likely to contain trans fat.
Trans fats cause significant and serious lowering of HDL (good) cholesterol and a significant and serious increase in LDL (bad) cholesterol; major clogging of arteries; type 2 diabetes; and other serious health problems.
The amount of trans fat has been reduced and very recently some brands are now available that are trans free. Deep-fried fast food is a major source of trans in many people's diets even when advertised as "cooked in vegetable oil".
Findings suggest that replacing saturated and trans unsaturated fats with unhydrogenated monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats is more effective in preventing coronary heart disease than reducing overall fat intake.
E-Numbers
These are the basic e-numbers that you should avoid at all costs.
A cherry-pink/red synthetic coal tar dye found in cocktail, glacé and tinned cherries, canned fruit, custard mix, sweets, bakery, snack foods, biscuits, chocolate, dressed crab, garlic sausage, luncheon meat, salmon spread, paté, scotch eggs, stuffed olives and packet trifle mix. It is also used to reveal plaque in dental disclosing tablets.
Because food processing at temperatures above 200°c partly degrades Erythrosine, releasing iodide, there are fears that it could affect thyroid activity, can increase thyroid hormone levels and lead to hyperthyroidism, was shown to cause thyroid cancer in rats in a study in 1990. It is toxic to some strains of yeast cells and is also implicated in phototoxicity (a sensitivity to light).
Not recommended for consumption by children.
The Hyperactive Childrens Support Group belive that a link exists between this additive and hyperactive behavioural disorders in children.
It is banned in Norway and the United States.
BATTERY FARMED HENS
If the eggs you buy from the supermarket do not say FREE RANGE then they will be Battery farmed. The condition the farmers keep their battery-hens in is atrocious, really sickening. The good news is that half of all eggs bought are free range, make sure the ones you buy are too.
And then when you eat a chicken-pie consider where that chicken came from. Probably a battery-hen. Only eat free-range chicken.
