Pretty much anything that you would find in a bag at the convenience store. Chips and the like.
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
At a whole foods store.
No, palm oil is very bad for you.
Other principles of a healthy diet are avoiding artificial and processed foods, eating food that is as fresh and natural as possible, drinking plenty of water, and avoiding hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.
Seeing that peanut butter is mostly fat and protein, it has a very low GI. Be sureto choose varieties which do not contain "hydrogenated oil" or "partially-hydrogenated oil"listed on the label.
Shortening is made from partially-hydrogenated or hydrogenated vegetable oils.
Perhaps you mean 'hydrogenated'. This is a process where a liquid oil is chemically treated to make it solid. The resulting product is extremely unhealthy.
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Crisco lists it's ingredients as hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, mono- and diglycerides.Check out the wiki site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco for the whole story on how it was first invented by proctor and gamble as a cheaper substitute to animal fats for making candles. It was the first all vegetable oil shortening but it was intended for making candles. When electricity became widely available the demand for candles was reduced and that's when they decided to sell it as shortening... to eat.
it is butter or margarine.
Perhaps you mean 'hydrogenated'. This is a process where a liquid oil is chemically treated to make it solid. The resulting product is extremely unhealthy.
Hydrogenated oil is far worse.