*4.1. Comparison between Lebanese Market Basket Investigation and Other Global and Regional Market Investigations*

According to many studies, there was an impact of TFAs labeling on reducing the burden of CVDs due to TFAs [39]. According to an unpublished study conducted by our team, 32% only of the products available in the Lebanese markets reported TFAs on their labels (Data not shown). Our finding came to hand by hand with Kamel et al. [40], in which 181 food products were sampled from local supermarkets in Saudi Arabia and showed that one-third of the products mentioned TFAs on the nutrition label. Moreover, while the majority of the investigated samples in our project had low levels of TFAs, up to 14 g of TFAs per 100 g of food was observed in certain oils and fats sold at the Lebanese markets. Our findings, concerning the range of TFAs in-market products, were relatively low compared with the market investigations published in Stender et al. (2019–2020) [41,42].
