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Why doesn't the "Traditional Spread" mention "non-hydroginated" on the container?

Asked by flo (13313points) February 26th, 2015

On their site it says:
”....Traditional Spread is a vegetable oil tablespread made with non-hydroginated oils. Now with 0g of trans fat per 10g serving, it is a healthier option vs other margarines containing hydroginated fats.”
But they are not comparing it with the old non-hydroginated lactantia margarine that seems no longer on the shelf.

- See more at: http://www.lactantia.ca/food_product/traditional-spread-margarine/#sthash.T6IXAcj6.dpuf
Why doesn’t it say “non-hydroginated” on the container?

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dappled_leaves's avatar

Doesn’t that information appear in the “Nutrition Facts” label? I think it has to at least give the percentage of trans fat, by law.

ibstubro's avatar

When you look for your ingredients, that’s what you’ll be looking for: either a product that specifically states ‘non-hydrogenated’ for the shortening/margarine, or one that does NOT list ‘hydrogenated’ anywhere in the ingredient list.

I’m not 100% certain of your question about “the old non-hydroginated lactantia margarine that seems no longer on the shelf”, but I would suggest that this is just a package re-design to differentiate the traditional product from an expanded product line.

If you click on “Nutritional Info” in your link, it will bring up the Nutrition Facts. If the oils were hydrogenated they would be required to state that.

Quite simply, the lack of mention of hydrogen in the nutrition facts means it is not a concern or worry.

livelaughlove21's avatar

I don’t know, but I’m sure it’s fraud.~

flo's avatar

When you have some “selling point” word or term you keep it going no? “Non-hydroginated” as a selling point quuality used to be right there, without needing to go to the ingredient list. So I was wondering they removed it to sell less of it? Of course not.

And what is “traditional spread” comapred to margarine? I tried to find definition in google.

flo's avatar

@ibstubro re. my “no longer on the shelf” I just mean they are not giving people the option of staying with what was there before, i.e margarine, non-hydroginated. Not that I find that was the healthy/healthier or product, I simply don’t know.
And I did see the list of ingredients before I posted the OP, but it didn’t give me the list of the margarine to compare it to.

Thank you @dappled_leaves and @ibstubro

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