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Default Good Peanut Butter vs. Bad Peanut Butter

On 3/3/2004 10:47 AM, Peggy Sullivan wrote:
> jmk wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/2004 10:15 AM, Peggy Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Sue! This is just the sort of information I was looking for.
>>> I guess it comes down to taste rather than nutrition.
>>>
>>> Peggy

>>
>>
>>
>> I dunno about that. My DH pointed this out to me:
>>
>> They say that chocolate is heart healthy in moderation.
>> They say that wine is heart healthy in moderation.
>> They say that coffee isn't bad for you.
>> They say eat as little trans fat as humanly possible.
>>
>> Why not take the wine and coffee and chocolate and skip the trans fat?
>>

>
> But there do not really seem to be any trans fats to skip, in Curly Sues
> post I read:
>
> "The laboratory found no detectable trans fats in any of the samples,
> with a detection limit of 0.01 percent of the sample weight."


About one gram per serving (I aske them and I think it as .8 or
something) is not zero, it's still a gram more than is necessary. It's
not as if natural peanut butter is difficult to come by.


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