Total Fat - This label indicates the total grams of fat in your food. This will include the healthy monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fat content, trans fat and saturated fat altogether. This number isn't as revealing of healthy fat content as much as the ratio of this number to the Trans and Saturated Fat labels.
Monounsaturated Fat - Fat that is typically liquid at room temperature. Found in: olive, canola, sesame oils, avocados, peanuts, pistachios, cashews, almonds and nut butters.
Polyunsaturated Fat -Fat that is typically liquid at room temperature as well. Found in: corn, cottonseed and safflower oils, sunflower seeds, flaxseed and flaxseed oils.
Trans Fat - Is a man-made fat found in margarine and packaged food. You want to limit the consumption of this type of fat..
Saturated Fat - Fat that is typically solid at room temperature and mostly found in food that comes from animal sources. Found in: meats, butter, whole milk, cheese, cream and ice cream. You want to limit the consumption of these fats as well and they should not make up the bulk of your dietary intake.
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2 comments:
Good to know! Thanks :)
Now this is making more sense. There is so much information on those labels, I don't know how they expect normal people to understand what its even telling us.
Thanks for writing this.
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