Mom’s Blog

by Warren Matthews of Xtend-Life

I am travelling at the moment and last night I stayed with some health conscious friends.

At breakfast time they put some organic jam on the table and fruit and muesli…  Plus some really nice dark whole grain bread.  As usual I looked at what spreads they were using for their toast and and as with many health conscious people they had a spread called Golden Olive using olive oil.  They had another which was a ‘Delicious dairy spread with real dairy cream.

I asked them why they were not using butter, and the answer was because they believed that these spreads were healthier.

Also as usual I looked at the small print on the back of the containers.

The olive oil one had in small print “Virtually no trans fats”.  That is double speak for saying yes, we have trans fats but we are not going to tell you how much.

The ‘natural one’ had on the label ‘hydrogenated vegetable oil’.  So, in other words it was basically a hydrogenated vegetable oil spread with a little bit of dairy included.