Definition of "trans fat" []

• A trans fatty acid. (noun)
• Trans fatty acids considered as a group. (noun)

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• "The trans fat industry used the same shenanigans in its “study” of incredibly healthy tropical oils, actually selling your mother on a better-living-through-chemistry killer that literally embalmed our food and our bodies in a free-radical bath for decades."