Palm Oil Not A Healthy Substitute For Trans Fats

We better keep reading the labels!

Palm Oil Not A Healthy Substitute For Trans Fats: (from ScienceDaily)

"Authors of an Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-supported study have addressed the question of whether palm oil, whose functional characteristics are similar to trans fats, would be a good substitute for partially hydrogenated fat....

The findings suggest that consuming either of the diets enriched with equivalent high amounts of palm oil or partially hydrogenated soybean oil would result in similar unfavorable levels of LDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein B (a protein, attached to fat particles, that carries bad cholesterol throughout the bloodstream). ....The results suggest that palm oil would not be a good substitute for trans fats by the food industry, the authors wrote.."

This is not a total surprise and some (for instance SmartBalance) are already labeling their products with "No Palm Kernel Oil" and address the issue of using any Paol Oil here.

NOTE Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil are two different things.