Hydrogenated fat arrives at the factory as little "ball bearings" that look like they re made out of white Hydrogenated fat arrives at the factory as little-ball them plastic If you hold some hydrogenated fat beads in your hand for a week. they won't melt. lf you hold to a forever, for that matter. they also wouldn't melt. This is what makes hydrogenated fat so appealing company that wants to manufacture an easy to handle product. Its the stuff that gives manufactured biscuits the ability to stay intact when you dunk th as opposed to homemade biscuits that melt and break when they get soggy. It binds food together. When added to cheap chocolate. it prolongs the shell life of the final product. melting at inopportune moments and stops the creamy cocoa butter by keeping it from separating from the cocoa. together come hel So hydrogenated fat is handy stuff if you want to make a food product that will stick or high water. But what's a useful quality in terms of practicality becomes a nasty factor in terms of deliciousness. This stuff is quite simply not It doesn't melt in the mouth that s the whole point. But tasty. when you eat chocolate, thats the sensation you're looking for meltin-the-mouth chocolate pleasure. exactly And when you eat hydrogenated fat. your body doesn't know what to do with it. You simply haveni leamt digest it during the millennia your intestines have been learning about digesting proper food. So adler trying to digest it in various ways. your body ends up layering i as plasticky deposits along your artery walls. Which of course isn't good at all.