KFC cuts trans fat
It's official: KFC is switching to oil with no trans fat, the company has announced.
The Louisville-based chain announced Monday that all 5,500 of its U.S. restaurants have stopped frying chicken in artery-clogging trans fat, according to the Associated Press. The company had said in October that it was switching to a new soybean oil believed to be less likely to cause heart disease.
Sister brand Taco Bell also said Monday that its U.S. restaurants have completely switched to an oil with zero grams of trans fat. All 4,200 single-brand Taco Bells were converted to a canola oil, and all 1,400 multibrand locations switched to a soybean oil, the fast food chain said.
Now, if KFC could just make that chicken low-calorie ...
-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com
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KFC is also the first of the fast food chains being sued by California's attorney general, to agree to label its foods that are high in acrylamide. Acrylamide is a substance formerly known to be present in concrete and grout, that in 2002 was found to form in starchy foods when they are heated. In 2005, the World Health Organization declared acrylamide as probably carcinogenic to humans and recommended people restrict their intake of this. A list of foods with average acrylamide content can be found at www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/acrylamideintakefdaappendix.pdf.
Lynne Eldridge M.D.
Author, "Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time"
http://www.avoidcancernow.com
Posted by: Lynne Eldridge M.D. | May 1, 2007 10:23 AM