Laboratory results of honey testing
It is a food fraud more nefarious and more sophisticated than what we found in our 2003 and 2006 investigations into soft drinks; more damaging to our health than perhaps anything that we have found till
CSE Study
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Mix and match
Partially hydrogenated oils have an assured market in India. They are cheaper and easier to use in processed food industry and commercial eateries. The other reason for its popularity is Indian regulations do not spell the need to specify the oil used to make vanaspati. This, when the business of oils is dependent on imports
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Making of trans fats
In the 1970s, when concern about the link between saturated fats (like butter, lard, tallow) and heart diseases started growing, experts suggested a shift to unsaturated fats, which are in the liquid form. But the food-processing industry needed semisolids, for products like cakes and biscuits, for which they partially hydrogenated oil. Hydrogenation is the addition of hydrogen atoms to break
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Rules, but as good as not
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 includes specific standards on edible oils giving broad specification for different oils. The act allows two different oils to be blended and sold. The specifications do not lay down guidelines on fatty acid composition of different oils. There are specifications for vanaspati. Companies can mix any quantity of any
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Fat of the matter
<i>What does
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The five-year talk show
September 24, 2004: Union health ministry
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The Satyam in our oil
Which cooking oil is best for us? Why do I ask? Are we not bombarded with advertising messages telling us there is a healthy oil that is good for the heart? They talk of monounsaturated fatty acids
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Mines of scandal
THE impact of the global recession in terms of the slump in India
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Fat levels in veg oil high: NGO
G.S. MUDUR New Delhi, Feb. 3: The levels of dangerous transfats in vegetable oils sold in India remain unregulated more than a year after a government panel had recommended standards for these hazardous fats, a non-government agency said today.
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Vanaspati brands have high levels of trans fat: study
NEW DELHI: Almost all vanaspati brands available in the country have trans fat levels 5-12 times higher than the world
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Indian refined oils safe for cooking
Of The Popular Brands, Only Two Found To Exceed Safe Trans Fat Limit Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Don