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Originally Posted by sadie147  There's more to transfats than what's jsut listed. The buns do show partionally hydrogenated oils in them, which are trans fats. They must just be below the limit that they don't have to list them.
I was intrigued by this since it's 100% ground beef and googled it. Turns out that trans fats occurr naturally in many meats naturally.... If mcdonalds were adding the dangerous hydrogenated oils to their beef i'm sure they would have to list it (and they seem to be good at listing everything).
So it appears if you're eating meats and dairy, you're probably getting the transfats, just not he manmade bad ones.
If you want to avoid the dangerous transfats you should be lookin for 'hydrogenated' oils on labels as well as the nutrional info. Trans Fats: The Health Burden (PRB 05-21E) |
Agreed. The naturally occurring trans fats are what they are and are minimal in natural foods like beef and dairy. You put your finger better than I did on the key distinction: artificially added transfats vs. the natural ones. I wondered if McD's squirts the griddle with a hydrogenated oil to fry them, thus the transfat, or perhaps the transfats listed in the nutrition info are the natural kind?
To test this question, I checked BK's website to see if there's a difference in transfat numbers since they broil their 100% beef burgers. The hamburger itself has about .5g trans fat and the whopper burger has about 1. So, you're right that the burgers have the naturally occurring transfats, and not the added stuff.