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Trans fats labeled 0 may still be excessive, increasing Alzheimer's risk by 2.4 times

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Open your eyes wide and read the labels: eat less creamer, fried food and hydrogenated products

According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the following types of foods or fats and oils contain relatively more trans fatty acids:
1. Fried foods: fried chicken, French fries, fried tofu skin, fried tofu, fried dough sticks, salt-and-pepper chicken, doughnuts, etc.
2. Shortening, vegetable shortening, baker's shortening, white oil, hardened oil, and pies or pastry snacks made with these oils.
3. Filling oil, spread, salad dressing.
4. Oil products for baking: small pastries, muffins, some baked breads.
5. Potato chips, fried instant noodles or candies.
6. Creamer, creamer powder.

Chen Juncheng advises that when you see "hydrogenated", "hardened", "margarine" or "creamer", do not buy them. For butter, choose what is commonly called butter in English as much as possible, which is fat from animals, while margarine is mostly hydrogenated artificial butter.
He especially singled out creamer. In China, creamer is called plant fat powder, that is, powder made from vegetable oil. In Taiwan, China it is named creamer, which makes consumers mistake it for the essence of milk. Many creamers are made from hydrogenated vegetable oil, because the weather in Taiwan, China is hot, and if the plant powder is not hydrogenated, it easily clumps into a mass, but eating too much puts a great burden on the body.

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