Trans Fatty Acid in Selected Malaysian Foods and its Association with Intake Pattern and Contents in Human Milk of Lactating Mothers in Bandar Baru Bangi, Malaysia

Many countries have enforced regulation on TFA content in food labelling except for Malaysia. The unknown amount of TFA in local food have been hypothesized to impact the health, as well as disruption on nutritional value of human milk. The presence of TFA in human milk have been implicated in significant “displacement” of essential fatty acid, making the milk less energy dense. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to determine the TFA intake of Malaysian lactating mothers in association with human milk composition. The study consists of two parts; Part 1: Analysis of TFA content in selected food; bakery products, snacks, milk and dairy products, cooking oils and semisolid fats, fast food, breakfast cereals, roti canai, chapatti, thosai, drinking cereals, sweetened milk and ice cream and Part 2: Determination of pattern of intake for selected Malaysian food and TFA content in human milk among lactating mothers. The results from Part 1 showed that the highest amount of TFA was found in fast food which was <0.001g - 8.49g/100g lipid or <0.001g - 1.97g/100g food whereas, the lowest amount was found in snack, which was <0.001g - 1.89g/100g lipid or