Girl Guides of Canada roll out trans-fat free cookies
- November 24, 2008 1:49 PM |
- By Tara Kimura
By Tara Kimura, CBCNews.ca
The Girl Guides of Canada have announced they're trimming trans fats from their chocolate and vanilla cookies – two years after the U.S. Girl Scouts eliminated use of the artery-clogging oils in their sweets.
The Girl Guides said Monday the cookies, sold as a fundraiser for the organization, will have 90 per cent less trans fatper serving as of Spring 2009.
The issue of trans fats in Girl Guide cookies has been hotly debated. A2007 column calling on the Girl Guides to reformulate their cookies spurred vigorous debate. While some readers said they would continue to buy cookies because the Girl Guides are a worthy organization, others said they were disappointed the group was failing to offer healthier fare.
How does the recent announcement affect you? Are you more likely to buy cookies from the Girl Guides? Or were you unbothered by the trans fat content of their cookies?
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- Elizabeth Bridge is a producer with CBC's Digital Archives project. She got her start in the kitchen baking brownies and making fudge but is still trying to get pastry right.
- Andrea Chiu
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don't ask her to bake. It never turns out well. She tweets as @TOfoodie on Twitter and organizes food and wine events in Toronto called FoodieMeet.
- Amber Hildebrandt
works for CBCNews.ca in Toronto. Growing up on a farm in Manitoba, she acquired an insatiable appetite, but it was during a stint in Japan that she developed her discerning tastebuds and foodie ways.
- Tara Kimura
is a multimedia producer for CBCNews.ca.
- Andree Lau
is a CBC web reporter in Calgary. Her journalism career includes seven years as a CBC-TV reporter. Her own blog called "are you gonna eat that?" chronicles her eating adventures (including sampling snake and camel hoof tendon).
- Jessica Wong
is a CBCNews.ca writer who loves to eat and cook, as well as discuss, read and watch programming about food, sometimes all at once.
- Kevin Yarr
, CBCNews.ca's writer in Prince Edward Island, wrote about food and beer for national and regional magazines before joining the CBC. He acquired a desire for new tastes on his first trip to Europe, and an appreciation of eating locally and in season when he finally settled down on P.E.I.
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Ah, girl guide cookies!!!They were always so good and a legend. Very popular fund raiser too.
Take out the trans fats, but leave the taste, please.