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Trans fats are a type of mostly man-made fat that the food industry loves, but our hearts and blood vessels donât. In the late 19th century, chemists discovered that they could add hydrogen atoms to unsaturated fats by bubbling hydrogen gas through vegetable oil in the presence of a nickel catalyst.
In summary, it probably isn't the fact that a fat has a trans configuration in and of itself that is the problem. Rather, hydrogenated fats, which happen to have a trans configuration, have a negative impact on health. Trans fats has become a shorthand for this type.