{"id":4182,"date":"2023-01-24T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T03:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:51:16","slug":"what-is-trans-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-trans-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Trans Fat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Trans fat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids, are <strong>unsaturated fatty acids<\/strong> that come from either natural or industrial sources.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Naturally-occurring transfat comes from ruminants (cows and sheep).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Industrially-produced transfat is formed in an industrial process that adds hydrogen to vegetable oil converting the liquid into a solid, resulting in \u201cpartially hydrogenated\u201d oil (PHO).<\/li>\n<li>Partially hydrogenated oils (PHO) are solid at room temperature and prolong the shelf life of products. They are primarily used for deep frying and as an ingredient in <strong>baked goods.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are the Initiatives taken to reduce transfat intake?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National Level: <\/strong>Foods Standards and Safety Authority of India (FSSAI)launched <strong>a \u201cTrans Fat-Free\u201d<\/strong> logo for voluntary labelling to promote TFA-free products.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Global Level:<\/strong> World Health Organisation launched a <strong>REPLACE campaign<\/strong> in 2018 for global-level elimination of trans-fats in industrially produced edible oils by 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the functional role of Fatty Acid in body?<\/h3>\n<p>Fatty acids are energy sources and membrane constituents. They have biological activities that act to influence cell and tissue metabolism, function, and responsiveness to hormonal and other signals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/food\/5-billion-people-globally-exposed-to-toxic-trans-fat-linked-to-heart-disease-who-87276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>5 billion people globally exposed to toxic trans fat linked to heart disease: WHO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans fat, or trans-fatty acids, are unsaturated fatty acids that come from either natural or industrial source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}