Diet :: KFC to cook n fry chickens in less harmful trans fat

As of today, KFC Canada will immediately begin to phase in a Canadian-made trans fat free canola cooking oil, and virtually all of the menu items will be zero grams of trans fat when the trans fat free cooking oil conversion is completed in the new year.

KFC Canada phasing in zero grams trans fat menu in all 786 restaurants nationally early in the new year

– Canadian-made trans fat free canola cooking oil being phased in immediately
– The trans fat free cooking oil delivers the same great KFC taste that customers have come to love with zero grams of trans fat in the Colonel’s Original Recipe Chicken
– Nearly all of KFC Canada’s menu items will have zero grams of trans fat early in the new year

By early 2007, virtually the entire KFC Canada menu will contain zero grams of trans fat. In addition, KFC Canada’s preliminary nutritional analysis has also shown that with the new trans fat free cooking oil saturated fat levels in many products have decreased, on average, 40 per cent.

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