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Examples of VOIC Member Leadership in Reducing Trans Fat from the Canadian Diet Rich Products of Canada, makers of Rich’s Whip® Topping™, has reformulated more than 500 products, mostly targeted for the food service industry, to remove trans fat. Products include icings, fillings and mixes, beverages, bagels, partially baked breads and rolls, pizza dough, bread and roll dough and cookies. Unilever Canada was a retail pioneer in trans free margarines with Becel® which was introduced to Canadians over 25 years ago. More recently, all Unilever retail tub margarines are virtually trans free. Unilever has also reduced trans fat in all of its savoury line of products, including Knorr & Lipton branded soups. Furthermore Unilever Foodsolutions offers the Canadian foodservice and food manufacturing industries a comprehensive range of virtually trans free margarines, shortenings, emulsified shortenings, frying oils and pastry roll-ins. Canbra Foods has developed a trans free retail margarine, a trans fat free griddle fry product, trans fat free popping/topping products, non-hydrogenated margarine and shortening products for baking applications and non-hydrogenated margarine for food service applications. Canbra has also significantly increased production of a high oleic/low linolenic trans fat free frying oil that replaces deep frying shortenings without giving up on functionality. Archer Daniel Midland (ADM) has pioneered the development and production of “enzyme interesterified” shortening and margarine products minimizing trans isomer formation. Enzymatic interesterified shortenings and margarines utilizing soybean oil and fully hydrogenated soybean oil contain stearic acid as the major saturated fatty acid, along with considerable amounts of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids. Additionally, each product in the ADM NovaLipid line of fats and oils is specifically formulated to contain little or no trans fat. Bunge
Oils Canada has provided the Canadian food industry with many different
new products that have allowed both large and small companies involved with the
food service, bakery and margarine businesses to completely remove trans fats
from hydrogenation from their finished products. Cargill
Specialty Canola Oils
develops, produces and markets high-performance canola oils and solid
shortenings that deliver zero trans and low saturate solutions to the food
industry. Its business is backed by an intellectual property position in
the genetic engineering of canola, and by a leading team of molecular biologists
specializing in oil modification. It develops proprietary planting seed,
contracts with growers in AarhusKarlshamn (AAK) produces a complete line of highly functional, no trans, non-hydrogenated fats offered under its Cisao, Cebes, and EsSence brands. Offerings include trans free bakery shortenings, spray oils, frying oils, margarine hardstocks, confectionery coatings and filling fats. EsSence trans free fats are unique in that they are relatively low in saturated fat as well. AAK has also introduced a patent pending, non-hydrogenated, trans free puff pastry roll-in shortening. Loders Croklaan produces a wide variety of trans-free fats and oils for use in various applications such as: bakery and frying shortenings, compound coatings, confectionery, dairy-based products, caramels, cookie fillings, crackers and icings. The trans free products, sold under the SansTrans and Freedom Series brands, are all non-hydrogenated and based on palm or palm kernel oils which have been publicly endorsed as a reasonable, trans free alternative to partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. For More Information: |