Farmer Boys Cuts Trans-Fats

Farmer Boys Restaurants announced today that it will be transitioning its restaurants to a zero trans-fat per serving frying oil over the next few months.

The restaurant, known for its famous "Farmer Burger" (one of my favorites), and its monster-sized zucchini sticks, will now be preparing such fare in the new health-conscious oil.

Farmer Boys has partnered with Cargill as its supplier of cooking oils to make the switch over to the new oil.

The restaurant chain has actually been frying with it in some of its locations on a test-basis, and received positive results. Farmer Boys expects to roll out the trans-fat free per serving oil to all locations by the beginning of 2008.

This type of oil is not technically trans-fat free. It's trans-fat free "per serving". Meaning that it has between 0.1 to 0.5 grams of trans-fat in a single serving, but because of a rounding loophole, the FDA allows them to call it "trans fat free per serving".

Either way, I'll feel better about stuffing my face with more Farmer Burgers.