[Bob Buchholz]

Not to bust anybody’s bubble, but Cheez-it crackers contain ZERO grams of trans fat.

[liberty_lvr]

Dude, it doesn't matter whether the charge is true or not; it's the seriousness of the charge that counts.

Fake but accurate!! /s

[loungeSerf]

Looks like 0.5 grams of Trans-fat in original recipe.

http://www.cheez-it.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/fileBlob.pl?md5=8e290473417bbae7a7b705f250d483e5

[M203M4]

Someone else brought that up yesterday when this story was posted in another thread, so I had a look at the ingredients.

They contain canola oil, which contains off-label "trans-fats" (and not the good kind, like conjugated linoleic acids). The processing (specifically, the deodorization) to create canola oils involves high temperatures, causing the polyunsaturated oils to change to trans fatty acids. But the process does not involve explicit "hydrogenation", so they can legally specify 0 trans fat, the same way that butter specifies 0.

It is another one of those cases where government definitions supersede biochemistry.