I want to know about saturated fats in things like cans of tuna and nuts etc. are they animal fats?

Question

im a muslim and someone told me that saturted fats are animal fats so i have stopped eating everything that has saturted fats in please could u tell me the truth about it

Answer 1

Tuna is not vegetarian.  No, all saturated fats are not from animal origin.

Answer 2

You have been misinformed.

Tuna if packed in water only has the fish "fat" in it if it is packed in oil it's veggie fat added, usually soy, olive or canola.

Raw Nuts have their own natural fats, roasted have the oil they were cooked in added. But I've never seen either of these products with animal fat added. Read you labels.

Answer 3

The tuna itself has animal fat, regardless of the oil in it.  Nuts are from nature and normally don't have anything added to them--so they don't have animal fats.  Things like nuts, olives and avacadoes all have fat, but it's considered "good fat" and not from animals.

Answer 4

Well, I think we can safely say that you're going to come across some meat in a tin of tuna.....but in nuts, no.

Answer 5

Tuna is a fish, so yes its saturated fat would contain animal fat; nuts are a form of legume, which comes from a plant, so it would not contain saturated fat from an animal.

So....... nuts yes, tuna no. Here is a vegetarian diet pyramid, it contains no meat, nor fish, so if you are avoiding consuming those products, then you can see what's available to eat here:

http://www.oldwayspt.org/vegetarian_pyra...

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/healthnut...

Answer 6

Well, tuna is naturally going to be animal fat, as others have told you, but there are plant sources of saturated fat, such as coconut oil.  Even the healthier oils, such as olive and sunflower, have tiny amounts of sat fat, although they are primairly unsaturated.

Read the ingredient labels of the foods you eat.  If you don't see animal ingredients, the sat fats are plant based.

Answer 7

Saturated fats don't always come from animals. In the tuna it would be animal fat, though, since fish are animals.

Answer 8

Nuts do have saturated fats but they are nuts..not animals.  I would not know about canned tuna as I am a vegetarian and I do not eat tuna.