jersey. this is how you make the doughnuts? we fry the doughnuts inside this oil. the oil is all-purpose vegetable shortens. it contains artificial trans fat with the food and drug administration is now taking steps to ban. the american medical association called that a lifesaving move that requecan help keep the pub healthy. anthony says there s no trans fats in most of his baked goods and he supports a trans fat ban, even if it means changing some of the recipes in his bakery, even if it means getting rid of a top-selling italian pastry. without it, you re not going to get this type of flakiness in the dough. reporter: trans fat is found in processed foods made with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils linked to heart disease, and for years now, it s been under attack. in 2007, new york city banned restaurants from using artificial trans fats, and in recent years, more and more fast-food chains and food
the big question going forward, fred what are they going to replace the trans fats with? we might see some saturated fats coming back in smaller amounts, and that might be one of the replacements. a lot of scientists are working on alternatives, as well. fred, back to you. all right. thank you so much, sanjay. a trans fat ban might be felt the most, actually, at mom-and-pop bakeries. cnn s alexandra field shows us how it could change the way your favorite doughnuts and pastries taste. reporter: fred, despite recent efforts to curb the use of trans fats, they can be found in a number of processed foods and baked goods. so a ban on trans fats would send some bakers back to the kitchen to try and rework recipes to make the things that taste really good a little better for all of us. we haven t changed recipes in 40 years. everything s all old school, old-fashioned. reporter: new federal regulations could soon force thomas to change the way he s always made the doughnuts at broth
to find other things but switch out the trans fat and put in a different fat. would prices go up? it s interesting in restaurants and big chains they stopped frying in trans fat quite awhile ago. consumers didn t protest and kept eating the fries. taste-wise they won t notice. sometimes grocery manufacturers said the price would go up, but we would have to wait and see if that would be true. thanks. there is no timeline for a trans fat ban. the fda will collect comments. safe to say the food industry may give them an ear full. michael moss wrote the cover story broccoli s image make over and the author of salt, sugar fat and the food giants hooked us, he joins us now. does it sup prize you it s happening now?
designed to save lives. like the trans fat ban already in effect. but they said salt is not the problem, just the excess of it. maybe like government, you would be worse off without it, and not that happy if it didn t work. i m not sure if that makes sense. you get the point. a top chef not happy about the salt proposal. he says, anybody who wants to taste food with a no-salt taste, go to a hospital and taste that. peter, i m not sure how much salt conversations rate. i m sure they don t rate as well as sex conversations, i can tell you that. where do you draw the line for politicians and food? no, i don t see this makes any sense. maybe you could make an argument it s good to have more transparency. it s probably a good thing at mcdonald s they tell you how many there are 9,000 calories in a hamburger or something like that. so maybe, maybe you could have something in restaurants equivalent with that transparency, about what they use. but to ban it seems to be crazy.