Food companies

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to remove hydrogenated oil from all Horlicks products by September 2007.
Northern Foods announces all Fox's biscuits are free of HVO - including those with cream fillings. Good show!
Quorn - probably the best of the meat substitutes - some of the Quorn products contain HVO but we understand, as of August 2006, that these are on the way out!
Burton's Foods has just taken the hydrogenated oil out of Wagon Wheels and Maryland Cookies!
ABF (Associated British Foods) own Ovaltine. Despite its healthy, innocent image, some Ovaltine products contain hydrogenated vegetable oil. Fortunately the company is in the process of removing them.
Young's Bluecrest, well known for their breaded frozen fish fillets, is progressively removing trans fats from its products. It also has a policy to label trans fats where present.
Haldane Foods produce vegetarian foods under the Real Eat and Granose brands. Some of them contain hydrogenated oil, so read the ingredients! The good news is the company is working to become HVO-free.
Heinz is now committed to reducing trans fat levels in its products. It is putting this policy into action, notably in its Linda McCartney brand.
The Linda McCartney brand, under the ownership of Heinz, is now mostly free of hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Krispy Kreme - fry their doughnuts in 100% partially hydrogenated oil!
Pura Foods Ltd, part of US agri-food giant ADM, is a big producer of vegetable oils for both retail and trade. It labels trans fat on its vegetable oil, an oilseed rape oil, which has under 1 percent of trans fat. It also does a low-trans long life frying oil for the trade. Pura is not actually trans-free, but is clearly ahead of most competitors in the UK edible oils sector.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is a classic American-based global food giant, which huge interests that begin with the buying in of raw agricultural commodities, through to the supply of fully-processed ingredients to the food industry and retail trade. One of its major areas of operation is edible oils and fats, and ADM has an extensive range of low-trans ingredients in its "Novalipid" range. It also produces "Enova", a low trans oil formulation. However these are both aimed at the US market. In the UK, ADM sells classic high-trans hydrogenated oils, and does not promote its Novalipid products.
Karlshamns, whose operations are centered in Sweden and Norway, is a major manufacturer of 'specialty fats' for the food and cosmetic industries. It sells both hydrogenated oils and alternatives to hydrogenated oils, including a range of cocoa butter alternatives - some of which have high levels of trans fat, while others are very low in trans. It owns the UK company Kelanco, which makes 'flaked fats' for the UK convenience food market.
Write to a food company! - this page contains a sample letter that you can use as is, or adapt as you wish, when writing to food company to persuade them to remove trans fats / hydrogenated oil from their products.
Kelloggs - no trans fat in the corn flakes, but those cereal bars ... the good news is that they are to take trans out of all their products "over the next few years" (as of Nov 2004).
Cauldron Foods - the products may be vegetarian but are they healthy? Watch out for that hydrogenated oil !
Ginsters - the Cornwall-based maker of pasties and other savoury bakes makes widespread use of hydrogenated oil.
Traidcraft is one of the big players in the UK's "fair trade" movement. But it's ethical stance does not extend to protecting the health of its customers. Yes, those "fair trade" biscuits may well contain hydrogenated vegetable oil.
Complaint about Brace's "traditional" Welsh cakes - these contain hydrogenated vegetable oil, a non-traditional ingredient. Complaint made to Oxfordshire TSA, 7 October 2004.
St Ivel, part of Unigate / Dairy Crest.
Muller, who make yogurts and puddings.
Unilever, makers of Flora, Knorr, Birds Eye...
Cadbury, known for their milk chocolate and cakes.
McVities, makers of cakes and biscuits.
Nestlé - best know for Nescafé, also owners of Rolo, Smarties, Buitoni ... they say they are trying to reduce trans fat levels, but many products still contain HVO.
Masterfoods - makers of Mars bars, Twix, Milky Way, Snickers and Bounty. When we looked, they all had hydrogenated vegetable oil apart from Bounty.
Lyons cakes, part of the RHM food conglomerate.
RHM are owners of Mr Kipling, Lyons cakes and many other well-known brands.
Mr Kipling - known for their "exceedingly good cakes" which are regrettably loaded with hydrogenated vegetable fat.
Kraft Foods.
United Biscuits, owners of McVities, Linda McCartney and other brands.