Originally Posted by
hugolover
Quite often cheap baked goods contain trans fats. I believe I may have read somewhere that one of BS' pledges is that they don't use them, can anyone verify that?
Yes - in trade newspapers their regular adverts mention that they've done a Responsibility Deal:
http://responsibilitydeal2.dh.gov.uk/render.php?r=270
These Deals are quite common in the industry these days and have greatly reduced trans fat consumption in the last few years. Some trans isomer fatty acids occur naturally at very low levels, so it's difficult to completely get rid of them in balanced Western or Asian diet, so the recommendation is that it gets down to trace levels.