TRANSforming the Food Supply

Appendix 3 - Fatty Acid Composition of Canadian Foods (Summer 2005)

Food Categories	Ingredients (food labels)	Fat	Trans	MUFA	n-6	n-3	SFA	Lauric	Myristic	Palmitic	Stearic	Trans + SFA
		g/100g of food	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat	g/100g of fat
Bakery Products
Baked Desserts
Brownies (n=3)3	Hyd. Soy & cottonseed oils, butter oil	19 - 27	24 - 25	33.5 - 39.5	8 - 12	0.3 - 1.5	25.7 - 27	0.1	0.1	13.1 - 15	11 -12	49.7 - 52
Apple pies (n=2)3	Hyd. vegetable oil	11 - 12	29 - 33	31	11 - 13	0.5	24 - 25.9	0	0.2	12.5 - 13	11 - 12	53 - 58.9
Coffeecake3	Soybean oil margarine & shortening	17	0.9	31	34	6	26	0.2	0.5	20.5	4	26.9
Bread4	canola oil or soybean oil
Lard & Shortening
Shortening5	Partially hydrogenated oils		35				25					60
Shortening6	Blend of sunflower, soy and cottonseed oil	100	0.6	39	33	2.7	25	0	0.1	13	11	25.6
Lard5	Lard		0				43					43
Muffin mixes
Muffin Mixes (n=2)3	Veg. oil (shortening)	9	25	31	18	0.8	23 - 25	0	0.2	14	8	48 - 50
Muffin mix	Veg oil shortening (palm oil)
Condiments & Sauces
Peanut Butter
Light Peanut Butter3	Hydrogenated vegetable oil	40	0	61	19	0	18	0	0	9	4	18
Creamy P. Butt. (n=4)3	Hyd. veg. oil, soya oil	48 - 56	0 - 0.2	39 - 51	27 - 37	0.1 - 1.8	20 - 22	0	0	10 - 11	4 - 5	20 - 22.2
Confectionery
Dessert
Snack Puddings5	Partially hyd. soya oil		33- 40				25 - 33					58 - 73
Snack Puddings5	Hyd. coconut and palm kernel oils		0				100					100
Snack Puddings5	None		0				21 - 66					21 - 66
Frozen Foods
Dinners & Entrees
Chicken Parmigiana	Hyd. soy oil, canola oil, sesame oil	1.6	0	51	23.5	6	23.5	0	2	16.5	4.5	23.5
Potatoes
French Fries (n=2)3	Canola oil	3	0	65	21	9	8			5	2	8
Frozen Hash Browns3	Hyd. Veg. oil (may be beef tallow)	6	24	35	3	0	36		1.4	18	15	60
Hot Beverages
Coffee Whiteners
Regular Coffee Whitener6	Partiallly hydrogenated soya oil	7.8 ± 0.1	47.8±0.1	23.7±0.1	1.6±0.1	0.1±0.0	27.1±0.1			11.0±0.0	15.1±0.1	74.9±0.2
Fat Free Coffee Whitener6	Partially hydrogenated soya oil	2.6 ± 0.2	43.4±0.5	21.3±0.4	1.5±0.0	0.2±0.0	33.3±1.1			12.7±0.5	19.6±0.8	76.7±1.6
Regular Coffee Whitener5	Hydrogenated coconut oil	10	0				100					100
Prepared Foods
031- Oriental Noodles3	Hyd. palm, cottonseed & soya oils	18	7	37	5	0.1	51	0.4	1	45	5	58
Oriental Noodles (n=2)3	Soya oil, cottonseed oil, chicken fat	21	39	31 - 32	5.5	0.1	23	0	0.1	14	8	62
Oriental noodles 7 (n = 2)	Palm oil	22	0	37			50	0	1	43.5	4	50
Oriental Noodles 7	Beef Tallow	15	0	42			50	1	4	25	19	50
Refrigerated Foods
Margarines
Tub margarines (n=15)6	Non-hydrogenated oils	20.2 - 71.9	0.9 ± 0.3	39.8 ± 16.9	32.1 ± 11.7	7.3 ± 1.3	20.0 ± 6.0	2.2±1.3	1.0±0.4	11.0±2.4	4.5±2.5	20.9±6.3
Tub margarines (n=11)6	Partially hydrogenated oils	60.8 - 72.6	19.5 ± 4.7	32.2 ± 10.2	26.7 ± 10.6	4.6±1.4	17.5±2.7	0.1±0.2	0.2±0.1	9.9±0.6	6.7±2.1	37±7.4
Stick margarines (n=3)6	Partially hydrogenated oils	69.5 - 71.7	39.6±3.9	33.9±1.0	7.6±1.5	0.8±0.5	18.1±2.7	0.4±0.3	0.2±0.1	9.9±0.6	6.7±2.1	57.7±6.6
Cookies
Cookies (n=3)6 300 - 350g	veg. oil shortening, coconut oil,	13 - 22	17 - 19	20 - 23	4 - 6.5	0.2 - 0.3	52 - 57	18 - 24	8 - 11	12	7 - 12	69 - 76
	hyd. palm kernel oil
Cookies5 350g	Coconut shortening, modified palm	20	0				80					80
Marshmallow (n = 1) 6 400g	Vegetable oil shortening	14	7	34	5	0.3	53	0.1	0.3	22	29	60
Chocolate Chip3 350g	Cocoa butter, veg. oil short., butter oil	21	0	36	9	0.5	52	3.8	2	24	20.5	52
Chocolate Chip3 400g	Kernel oil, sunflower oil	20	0.5	50	15.5	6	31	2	0.8	16	11	31.5
Arrowroot Cookies3 350g	Vegetable oil shortening	12	0	37	14	0.5	48	0.2	0.8	43	4	48
Arrowroot Cookies3 400g	Mod. palm and palm oil veg. Short.	14	30	31	15	0.7	23			13	10	53
Arrowroot Cookies3 500g	Modified palm & canola oils	11	0	40	16.5	5	38		0.6	34	3	38
Arrowroot Cookies3 350g	Sunflower & canola oils	15	1	60.5	28	3	8			6	1.7	9
Crackers
Vegetable Crackers 225g3	Palm, coconut & soya oil,	24	0	31	9.5	0.2	59	10	4.5	37	4	59
	hydrogenated cottonseed oil
Vegetable Crackers 250g3	Sunflower oil	24	0	84.5	7	0.4	8			4	2.4	8
Snack Foods
Potato Chips3	Vegetable oil	40	0.5	18	52.5	0.2	28		0.6	24	2.6	28.5
Potato Chips3	Vegetable oil	32	2.7	65	21	8.6	6			4	1.6	8.7
Potato Chips3	Sunflower oil	30	0.6	59.5	30	0.2	9			4.5	3.4	9.6
Cheese Sticks3	Vegetable oil, hyd. vegetable oil	50	3.6	60	23.2	7.1	8		0.2	5	1.9	11.6
Nachos6 (movie theatre)	Not available	19.3	37.6	32.5	11.9	0.4	17.6	0.2	0.2	11.7	4.7	55.2
Nachos cheese sauce6		11.3	38.1	32.3	1.9	0.2	27.2	0.3	1.5	13	10.9	65.3
Microwave Popcorn3	Hydrogenated soybean oil	17	39	25	9	0.3	26			12	13	65
Granola bars (n=2)6	Canola oil, 1soya nuts, 2peanut butter	17.8 - 24.2	0.8 - 1.1	61.3 - 66.2	19.7 - 22	2.3 - 2.7	10.3 - 12.2	0.1	7.1 - 8.0	1.9 - 2.3	0.6 - 0.7	11.1 - 13.3
Granola Bars (n=4)6 6-32S	Canola, soybean, sunflower, peanut	8.0 - 14.8	0.4 - 1.2	55.3 - 64.7	19.0 - 29.8	0.7 - 2.5	11.1 - 13.0	0 - 0.1	0.1 - 0.2	7.5 - 9.8	2.1 - 2.6	11.5 - 14.2
Granola Bars (n=4)6	Hyd. soybean oil, coconut, other fats	13.3 - 33.2	0.4 - 1.6	60.9 - 66.8	11.6 - 19.7	0.4 - 1.7	16.3 - 21.6	0.8 - 3.9	0.4 - 1.7	7.4 - 10.4	1.9 - 8.6	16.7 - 23.2
Granola Bars (n=3)6 6S	cocoa butter, butter oil, hyd. veg oil	12.8 - 17.8	1.1 - 2.6	31.1 - 39.4	5.4 - 7.3	0.3 - 1.4	49.6 - 60.0	2.9 - 5.3	2.4 - 4.1	19.4 - 23.5	20.8 - 26.2	50.7 - 62.6
Granola Bars (n=1)6	Palm kernel, canola, peanut, soybean	9.2	0.9	32.3	15	1.4	52.2	25.4	11.2	10.7	2.9	53.1
Granola Bars (n=2)6	Coconut oil, partially hyd. veg oil	9.7 - 11.5	5.5 - 14.1	15.2 - 23.6	7.2 - 13.6	0.4 - 0.6	46.8 - 71.6	16.4 - 33.3	7.8 - 14.3	12.6 - 16.9	6.8 - 9.4	52.3 - 85.7
Granola Bars (n=1)6	Hyd. canola oil	18.1	7.5	64.6	15.1	1.8	7.5	0	0.1	7.1	1.9	15
Granola Bars (n=1)6	cocoa and peanut butters, hyd. oil	21.3	8.5	34.7	8.7	0.2	33.3	3.8	2.1	13.8	11.1	41.8
Granola Bars (n=1)6	soybean oil short., coconut	12.3	17.5	28.5	22.8	2.6	28	3.2	1.4	13.5	8.4	45.5
Granola Bars (n=1)6	hyd. Veg. oil	13.3	27.9	29.8	8.6	0.3	33.9	6	2.6	12.8	11.5	61.8

¹.Private laboratory analysis
².Industry information
³. Label information
⁴. Health Canada analysis
⁵. Canadian Nutrient File