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[gerisullivan]

...research recipes and make you oatmeal-cherry-cranberry cookies with Sunsweet Lighter Bake in place of the butter so the warm-from-the-oven cookies have just a quarter gram of fat each.

And what are those three grams of fat doing in a half cup of dry oatmeal, anyway? Especially when the recipe calls for 3 cups of the grain?

Many thanks, Elaine! For the cookies, for your presence, and for all of the help these last two weeks. Much appreciated!

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[lesliet-ma.livejournal.com]

Oatmeal is a whole grain, so it still has the bran and the the germ, and the germ contains fat. Normally, this isn't so bad, since it's a plant-based, mostly unsaturated, fat, but it does seem sneaky when you're trying to keep your fat consumption to an absolute minimum.

The same is true for flour - whole grain flour will have more fat than refined white flour because the refining removes the bran and germ.

Unfortunately, I don't think I've ever seen refined oatmeal.

parsleigh, I'm not sure the Sunsweet Lighter Bake would be good for a diabetic because it uses prunes to replace the fat and thus I suspect it's high in sugar. You'd need to check the label.

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. That makes considerable sense.

I know there's fat in darned near everything, and have been guesstimating all of those "0 grams fat" servings at being more like 0.49 grams. Even 3 grams is super low for anything with nutritional value beyond sugar.

The way I look at it, a quarter gram of fat certainly beats the 5 grams in a single Keebler Pecan Sandy. There hasn't been a single commercial cookie I've been willing to buy after seeing the grams of fat in them. Four cookies for a gram of fat is a win, and a bit of chewy cookie goodness is ever so welcome right now.