Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 Smart Balance margarine has hydrogenated soybean oil - I checked every margarine on my store's shelf and Promise was the only brand that didn't have anything hydrogenated. I thought Smart Balance and Benecol would be great but they aren't. Promise uses gelatin to thicken. In the Good Fat Good Carb Guide, page 79, the chart has Good by Benecol-type light spread and Benecol-type regular spread and trans-fat free Brummel & Brown type spread! Go figure! Maybe allowances are made if the hydrogenated item is not in the first THREE ingredients! Sheila (Virginia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 thanks i have the book! Sara cobbsmom@... wrote: Smart Balance margarine has hydrogenated soybean oil - I checked every margarine on my store's shelf and Promise was the only brand that didn't have anything hydrogenated. I thought Smart Balance and Benecol would be great but they aren't. Promise uses gelatin to thicken. In the Good Fat Good Carb Guide, page 79, the chart has Good by Benecol-type light spread and Benecol-type regular spread and trans-fat free Brummel & Brown type spread! Go figure! Maybe allowances are made if the hydrogenated item is not in the first THREE ingredients! Sheila (Virginia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 > Smart Balance margarine has hydrogenated soybean oil - I > checked every margarine on my store's shelf and Promise was > the only brand that didn't have anything hydrogenated. I > thought Smart Balance and Benecol would be great but they > aren't. Promise uses gelatin to thicken. > > In the Good Fat Good Carb Guide, page 79, the chart has Good > by Benecol-type light spread and Benecol-type regular spread > and trans-fat free Brummel & Brown type spread! Go figure! > Maybe allowances are made if the hydrogenated item is not in > the first THREE ingredients! What you're probably seeing is the " no transfats " rules here. The SBD has a semi-standard policy of avoiding transfats whenever possible. Anything that has hydrogenated whatever is going to have transfats as a byproduct of the process -- it's that simple. BUT, if the product has less than .5g per serving, the FDA says they can claim no transfats. Considering the mass-marketed nature of the SBD, they've clearly taken the path of conforming with the FDA's position on things. This makes it much easier to manage the diet and makes it more mainstream applicable. It's also probably the biggest source of conflict and inconsistency in the system and can certainly lead to a great deal of confusion. The issue of transfats (among other things) is why I do not eat margarine products. When I want " butter " I use real, unsalted sweet-cream butter. I'd much rather get the saturated fats in real butter than the extra sodium and transfats in margarine. Interesting that Promise uses gelatin to thicken their product. I won't use that either (I know what gelatin IS) but that's definitely a step away from the current norms for margarine, and probably not a bad one either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I just grabbed my Smart Balance out of the fridge to check after reading this. There is no hydrogenated soybean oil anywhere in the ingredients on the container that I have. ann > > Smart Balance margarine has hydrogenated soybean oil - I checked every margarine on my store's shelf and Promise was the only brand that didn't have anything hydrogenated. I thought Smart Balance and Benecol would be great but they aren't. Promise uses gelatin to thicken. > > In the Good Fat Good Carb Guide, page 79, the chart has Good by Benecol-type light spread and Benecol-type regular spread and trans- fat free Brummel & Brown type spread! Go figure! Maybe allowances are made if the hydrogenated item is not in the first THREE ingredients! > > Sheila (Virginia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 1, 2006 Report Share Posted February 1, 2006 OK guys - I stand corrected. Smart Balance has NO hydrogenated soybean oil. The one that does is Brummel and Brown which is made with yogurt! I apologize for having caused any confusion. We do need to read the labels closely, on everything. Sheila (Virginia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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