Tortillas - Hydrogenated Oils

[Guest guest]

Hi folks:

Here is something I had not realized. I had been under the

impression that tortillas in general had, very approximately, similar

ingredients to pitas - which, if yer can forgive the starch, are

acceptably healthy.

But today I looked at the ingredient list of some tortillas: wheat

flour; water; hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil; .........

IIRC about 10% of the calories in wheat flour come from fat. The

only two ingredients in this product list that contain fat are the

two above. So there must be one heck of a lot of the hydrogenated

fat in the product to raise the overall fat calories to 66%.

Can't be too careful.

[Of course I am probably the only person on the planet who didn't

know this!]

Rodney.