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- From: sbhattac@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Shankar Bhattacharyya)
- Newsgroups: misc.fitness,rec.food.veg
- Subject: Re: Hidden Fat In Packaged Foods
- Message-ID: <35750@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 18:45:16 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.191338.17273@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan22.142519.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan22.142519.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> poulin@violet.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
-
- > What I enjoy is entering the supermarkets, walking over to the hot-dog areas
- >and then looking at the 96% fat free packages and then looking at the caloric
- >info to see that while they're 4% fat by weight, they still have 60-80% fat by
- >calories...
-
- That's a pretty startling statement.
-
- Could you provide an example of the kind of product you have in mind, which
- simultaneously:
- a. is a hot dog, sausage, or cold-cut type meat product
- b. is 96 % fat free, by any plausible definition, even the rather
- unreasonable one used by meat companies
- c. gets 60% or more of its calories from fat?
-
- I think you will find that you have a couple of distinct things mixed up.
- Standard hot dog type products have approximately 80% of their Calories
- from fat. But these would not be marked "96% fat-free" or anything like
- that.
-
- Also, commercial hams, which tend to have about 4% fat by weight, have only
- about 35 or 40% of their Calories from fat. The fancier hams tend to have
- more fat.
-
- - Shankar
-