I detoxed starting four years ago when I accepted that even a little bit of un-natural or over-processed ingredients is too much. When I first started, it was diffuicult, because so much had sneak ingredients.
It's getting better. But as far as trans-fats? They're not food, and when they're removed, nobody notices. Saying they can't be use in food is no different from saying you can't use cyanide or petroleum, for example. Next thing I'd like to see go for the same reason is high fructose corn syrup. JMHO
Good for you-there is even a little family grain farm and mill about 100 miles from here that sells to a little mom-and-pop health store in the next town. Have you tried baking bread from stone-ground whole grain flour, or using brown rice that has not been tampered with? I read every label, and you are right-I return about 2/3 of them to the shelf because of the hidden preservatives, and go without if I can’t find one that is free of additives like that.
Sweets at home on the ranch were the occasional pie from fresh fruit, or cookies-made from scratch, like everything else, and the sweetener on the table for your oatmeal-no cold cereal-was honey from a neighbor who kept bees-I never developed a taste for sweets-and those high fructose sweeteners are sweeter even than processed sugar-yech.