They are still here.
But not for long.
I grabbed the bag today to see what goes into the small things.
I saw: "Sugar, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, condensed skim milk, cocoa, whey, soya lechithin, artificial and natural flavors".
I wondered: what could partially hydrogenated soybean oil?
So,
I googled it.
First result:
Consuming partially hydrogenated oils is like inhaling cigarette smoke. They will kill you -- slowly, over time, but as surely as you breathe. And in the meantime, they will make you fat!
Yes, that's trans fats. There are more fucked up oils in tootsie rolls than milk or chocolate, not to mention whey.
Unlike butter or virgin coconut oil, hydrogenated oils contain high levels of trans fats. A trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmogrified", by high-heat processing of a free oil. The fatty acids can be double-linked, cross-linked, bond-shifted, twisted, or messed up in a variety of other ways.
The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in.
In short, trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -- so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them.
The Tootsie Poison Rolls are in the trash. I won't eat my death that way.I'm scared, and cooking for myself.
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Until recently, I had gone for some years without eating Tootsie Rolls, because they contained trans fat.
Recently, however, I found some that did not. On the other hand, most on the shelves that I see still do.
I would note that, recently, hydrogenated oils without trans fat have become fairly common. One can no longer infer with certainty the presence of trans fat from that of hydrogenated oil.
All tootsie rolls contain trans fat; however, many manufacturers can advertise "No Trans Fat!" because the FDA does not recognize anything below .49g of trans fat per serving as any trans fat. So if the serving size is 1 tootsie roll, it will contain less than half a gram of fat and therefore display "0g trans fat" on the nutritional info. Hurray for the FDA.
Thank you for writing this. Here's my story: About a week ago I noticed my baby girl (who is breastfed) was spitting up a lot all day (like 4 times & she never ever has spit up episodes). To be clear she was having the nasty curdled milk junk come up and stick to mama, clothes and of course baby's face. I wondered what the heck was happening - what had I changed in my diet. It was actually pretty obvious. I had been eating tootsie rolls for the first time in years that day. Sooooo I stopped. Bingo the spit up went away. Today I had 3 tootsie rolls - thinking 'well maybe it wasn't the candy, and if it was I doubt 3 will hurt.' Ummmm no. She immediately had problems and currently is eating milk from the freezer stash as apparently mine is now tainted with tootsie roll death aka transfat! What the freck!!! Why have tootsie rolls betrayed us by using an ingredient that New York City has outlawed in all its resturants? I really liked these candies! Now I'm just angry that my country allows companies to get away with this junk - especially in this case as its primary consumers are children!!!!
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