Burger King Gets on Trans Fat Ban Board
Burger King, criticized for being one of the more slow moving fast food restaurants to embrace the move away from harmful and arguably addictive trans fats in their foods and cooking oils, has now announced a timetable for completely eradicating trans fats from their foods. They have said that by the end of this year, all of their fast food restaurants should be equipped with their newly selected frying oil which is trans fat free.
Burger King has said it was concerned about preserving the flavors that their foods are known for, and trans fats notoriously deliver more flavor to foods, at the expense of health. Trans fats can sky rocket cholesterol, and are suspected as a contributor to the rise in heart disease here in the US. I guess we could say just steer clear of fast food altogether but for many Americans this would be unrealistic in today’s hectic, grab a bite as you go lifestyles.
The ban on trans fats is at least a positive step in the right direction for the fast food industry. While most of the foods you will get at fast food joints tend to be nutritionally void anyways, at least they will not contain the added fact that trans fats can add to cholesterol woes as well.
