Comments on: Calif. Bans Trans Fats From Restaurants

California Becomes First State To Ban Trans Fats From Eateries, Following Several Cities

[tmittelstaed]

Great!!! Using margarine in cooking in place of butter is disgusting, it''s a perversion of good cooking, and it''s outrageous that a restaurant would actually charge money to customers for fake butter. And a deep fryer works just as well on sunflower oil as it does on shortening, and many of the current deep fryer oils available for commercial restaurant use have even longer use lives than shortening. NYC banned trans fats some time ago and none of the restaurants there have had a problem with it. There''s absolutely no taste advantage to trans fats, no cost advantage, they do not make food last any longer than many non-trans fat formulations do today, and as for baking, well all the baking recipies today that call for shortening are merely MARKETING rewrites of OLDER recipies used before 1911 (when trans-fats first appeared) by the Crisco company designed to sell Crisco. They all originally called for butter or for lard. Bakers can go back to the original recipies or invent new ones.

[nojoy01]

(Sigh) Now there''s gonna be even more tasteless food in California Restaurants. No, wait, we can bury our trans fat free burger in tofu, that''ll liven it up !!

[voidmaster-2009]

So once again some government presumes to tell its owners what is best for them. Big Brother is alive and well.

[shanev137]

Hydrogenated vegetable oil turns into poison when it''s super heated. It breaks down chemically and was never designed to be used in a deep fryer. This is no-brain stuff folks. The food industry uses it because it''s very cheap to manufacture. Gee, that should tell you something right there.

[rudy654-2009]

Knowing what we know about this harmful ingredient, it is hard to believe that anyone would be against banning it. Oh well, too bad for them.

[rudy654-2009]

Good. Now let''s ban the whole product anywhere and everywhere. It''s just a cheap, but harmful ingredient to prolong the shelf life of many foods.

[timdgrim]

Just ban California!

[cyberus-2009]

And yet the shelves are overflowing with transfat loaded foods .. with "zero transfat" in huge letters .. and "per serving" in little letters underneath so they can use rounding to disguise the hydrogenated palm oil in the ingredient list.

What a joke.