Where can I find biscuits without hydrogenated vegetable fat?

[twogorgeousboys]

I know the obvious answer is to bake them myself, but me and the oven have a difficult relationship. I do great casseroles, full stop.

All the organic biscuits I've looked at still seem to have hydrogenated veg fat as an ingredient.

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sorry to be dense, but why is it important?

Tissy - I try to avoid hydrogenated fats because of the (garbled paraphrase of the scientific explanation that I can't quite articulate) bad effects on arteries etc - I had understood that of all the e-number-sugar-laden-over-processsed food that we eat, hydrogenated fats are the one thing really worth avoiding.

TGB's: I buy butter shortbread biscuits - ordinary tesco/sainsbury etc, and Tesco do organic shortbreads too.

shortcake biscuits have quite pure ingredients (and taste fabulous)

try your local health shop, they will almost definatly have some.

I went to see a nutritionist recently and she advised me to avoid hydrogenated veg fat if possible. I'm not great at the science either, but apparently its one of those "bad" fats (unlike olive oil which is a good fat).

I thought I'd try and find some biscuits without it as I like a biccie with a cup of tea.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I might be mistaken but I think fig rolls and jaffa cakes are hydrodgenated fat free ! I just went through the labels on all the packs in my local supermarket one day and now I buy these 2 most often !

tgb I am with you on this.
I would say avoid Mcvities as they all have trans fat in; but own brand eg digestives from Asda and Sainsbury's do not! They are not organic h/ever, I haven't looked at those, but would have thought it was likely that they would also be hydrogenate free, if the regular own brand are iyswim.
It annoysme that Asda are able to do trans-fat-free bix and they are cheaper yet McV put it in, the own brand ones taste fine.
Also get annoyed that Cheerios, marketed as suitable for children, also have hydrogenated veg oil in.
On a bit of a crusade about this actually. Really what we sould all do I guess is make all our own food (sigh).

what about the lovely duchy originals ones? surely they don't have h/fats??

Sainsburys Blue Parrot stuff is heavily laced with trans fats.

Seriously - bake them. Dd and I baked biscuits yesterday (Nigella's recipe) and we had a wonderful time and they taste lovely. And it really is a foolproof recipe, and the dough is freezable, so you can just get some out and cut the biscuits out and bake with no mess.

Prufrock, baking them sounds like a good idea. Could you email me your recipie. I would love to have a go at something like this.

I'd love the recipe too Prufrock. an you post it here?

doves farm organic bicis from health food shop dont.very very yummy too

Any buttery biscuits such as those Danish Butter ones, Tescos All Butter Biscuits or Almond Thins.

we just don't eat biscuits
easy huh LOL
NOT!

The totally lovely IKEA chocolate crunchy biscuits (don't know what they're called) don't have hydrogenated veg oils. You are very right to avoid them. My father who is a scientist specializing in nutrution and the causes of cancer thinks they are evil.

I was going to suggest shortbread too, it often seems to be the only one with hydrogenated fats.

On food labels, what other names for hydrogenated fats do you need to look out for?

hydrogenated vegetable fat

partially hydrogenated fat

shortening

These are the things to avoid if you can apparently (all the same thing, but slightly different wording.

As someone else has mentioned, they are sometimes called "trans fats".

I found a website yesterday (www.bantransfats.com) which explains quite a lot about them - they sound nasty!

think low fat mcvities digestives are ok
piffleoffagus how do abstain from biccies
please tell me your secret(my dp would probably pay you to wean me off them lol)

I've got the Dr Sears Family Nutrition book and there's a big section on the evils of trans fats.

According to the book (along with complicated organic chemistry explination) the reason trans fats are evil is because although they start out as runny vegetable oils (runny fats are liquid in your bloodstream so less likely to cause clots) the hydrogenation process makes them act like solid fats (like lard, butter, etc) which are solid in your system and more likely to cause clots.

Apparentley the trans fats can be passed to your baby in breast milk. And food labels in the UK don't have to list the trans-fat fat content as 'saturated'.

They do appear to be in just about everything, including bread so v limiting if bf! sigh