Starbucks removes trans fats effective, now: wait! Starbucks had trans fats?

Wow man... calm down a little bit. If you are such a hardline label reader, shouldn't you have read them ahead of time? "Trans-fats" just seems to be a giant buzzword right now, to be honest. It's the carb craze/low fat craze all over again. I don't expect local bakeries to suddenly snap to public outcry (if you can call it that) after New York banned them. Throttle back a bit.

Well...better health for those who eat there...I'm 40 and only went there once...and bought NOTHING...hmmm.. I guess I will not worry about their trans fat free products! :)

The food industry thrives on minimal disclosure, wherever possible. Deli meats (% water added, nitrates, binders), fast food, baked goods, and non dairy creamer (frappucino?) are excellent examples where you buy over the counter but have to look hard for nutritional statement content. That's frequently an oxymoron, since most of this crap has no nutritional value. I'm not sure what's in Starbucks blended products, but I won't touch it. Have you ever seen an ingredient statement for non dairy creamer? That's frightening.

>>>"Trans-fats" just seems to be a giant buzzword right now, to be honest. It's the carb craze/low fat craze all over again.

Not sure why it cut off my comment, but here goes, re: poster No. 1:

Do you know anything about trans fats at all? About how they're a fat created in a laboratory (to save the food industry money) and that our bodies are incapable of digesting them? That they just stay in our bodies lining our arteries until we die? That they not only raise your levels of bad cholesterol dramatically but lower your good cholesterol as well? That the recommended daily intake according to many dieticians is zero?

Trans fats are basically a low-grade poison, and the demand for it to be taken out of the food supply isn't the same as the pressure applied to companies to offer lower fat/lower sodium offerings. This is an entirely different animal, not some diet fad so that people can lose weight.

You would think, a donut is deep fried, duh, so it can't be *all that healthy*, so I don't see why it comes as such a shock that they have trans fats. Strict label readers wouldn't touch a Hostess donut, why would you think a Starbucks donut would be any healthier? Because it's "Starbucks"? They are good, don't get me wrong, I occasionally enjoy a mocha there, but I realize their bottom line is not my health!!

forget about the trans fat, someone needs to cut down on her caffeine. chill . . . it's a good thing.

Hey alright! Lard doughnuts are back!!! For the past 30 years the medicos have been soapboxing on weak science. No we find that great-grandma ate healthy after all. Lard fat is better than syntho-Crisco-crap. and vegetable oil? Pure crap, all syntho.
Solution? Walk to Starbucks, get ONE lard doughnut and walk home and chop wood. Food is to be enjoyed not to be medicine.

I don't know how to say this in a kind way... but whether there are trans fats or not, you should NOT be giving a 20 month old donuts every time you visit a coffee shop. I rarely go to Starbucks, but when I do, I see a lot of kids there doing the same - eating sugar/fat bombs bigger than their heads. This is just plain not healthy. One other comment: they are taking the trans fats out of the pastries. But what about those egg-mcmuffin-looking things that they take out of cellophane and put into the little oven? Yep, it's a perfectly crafted press release. Starbucks will continue to dump fat and sugar into their patrons, and still be heroes in print.

The real shocker is Sarah pretends to be concerned about food quality yet lets her 20-month old child eat doughnuts on a regular basis. Have you ever seen those grease sponges being made? I enjoyed a posters comment about the benefits of returning to good old fashioned lard.

Glad to see that Starbucks is banning poisonous trans fats. Wish more restaurant chains would. I have no problem with lard, but would like to see more places like Starbucks using healthy (yes, healthy) tropical oils like coconut oil and palm oil in baked and fried foods. Why do so many so called knowledgeable health and nutritional "experts" continue to tell us how bad they are when, in fact, they are among the healthiest fats one could eat? That isn't to say that we should go out and gorge on donuts fried in lard or coconut or palm oil, but I will be happy when I can have just one donut that has no trans fats in it!