Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
Hydrogenated vegetable shortening
Recorded year1911
Procter and Gamble's Crisco turns liquid cottonseed oil into a solid fat by hydrogenation, replacing lard in baking and frying.
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Led to
- Trans fat banRecorded · 2003enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.