Comprehensive studies on the trans fatty acid content of Austrian foods: Convenience products, fast food and fats

Food Chemistry

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1054-1060

  Wagner, Karl Heinz ^a   Plasser, Elisabeth ^a   Proell, Christiana ^a   Kanzler, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Convenience products; Fast food; Margarines; Trans fatty acids

Indexed keywords

FAT; MARGARINE; TRANS FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIET; FAST FOOD; FOOD; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GERMANY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; RISK;

EID: 39049154788     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2007.11.038     Document Type: Article

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