A Healthier Donut?
Well, yes, in terms of healthier for your cholesterol, and also probably healthier for your heart, BUT donuts are still fattening, and still a big no-no food, trust me. Dunkin Donuts has been the latest fast fooder to jump on the trans fat ban wagon by announcing that they are now making all of their famously delicious donuts with a trans fat free oil. Donut eaters rejoice, but don’t think this justifies cramming more of those luscious, fluffy empty and non-filling calories down your gullet!
It’s announced that it will be re-doing about 5o menu items or so, and then maybe they will do more if this new trans fat free thing works. Trans fats have received a lot of bad press lately, for a good reason. Trans fats are what’s called hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils that actually make those bad junk foods taste better, but they are also highly addictive, if you ask me, and they are also likely responsible for the increasing cholesterol rates here in the US, and almost certainly a contributing factor to the growing and not getting better obesity trend in the US.
The fats were dreamt up so that they could create a partially artificial oil with a better taste and longer shelf life, and voila, they came up with one of the worst and most sinful foods or byproducts in the history of modern food. It’s right up there with MSG, which I can’t figure out for the life of me why that hasn’t been banned yet - that and artificial sweeteners made with saccharin and other chemicals.
