Are seed oils the worst culprit in our processed food addiction?

[Anonymous]

I use peanut oil, mustard oil, olive oil, coconut oil, sesame oil, ghee and butter.

[Anonymous]

Ugh. Ive used canola or vegetable oil for Indian food and non Italian food. What should i use that doesn't have a strong taste? Im vegetarian and also had borderline high cholesterol, so dont want to rely on butter or ghee, which i use sparingly… im indian American, do dont mock me for not knowing. My mom used canola and vegetable oil primarily.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you can't eat seed oils, what would you use for cooking?

Use Plant oils like avocado oil or olive oil or coconut oil
It’s widely known that canola oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil are bad for you.

Of these, avocado oil is the most neutral and has the highest smoke point. Although it is much more expensive than other oils so cost prohibitive for many.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Ive used canola or vegetable oil for Indian food and non Italian food. What should i use that doesn't have a strong taste? Im vegetarian and also had borderline high cholesterol, so dont want to rely on butter or ghee, which i use sparingly… im indian American, do dont mock me for not knowing. My mom used canola and vegetable oil primarily.

I use avocado oil for most of my cooking and find it tastes pretty neutral. I even sub it for canola oil in baked goods and can’t taste it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Ive used canola or vegetable oil for Indian food and non Italian food. What should i use that doesn't have a strong taste? Im vegetarian and also had borderline high cholesterol, so dont want to rely on butter or ghee, which i use sparingly… im indian American, do dont mock me for not knowing. My mom used canola and vegetable oil primarily.

Indian-American here. I use avocado oil. I don't notice that it has a flavor. The goal for Indian food is to have a neutral oil (unless using ghee) with a high flashpoint. This works for me...and for my mom when she visits though she using corn or canola at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Where does olive oil fall (as it's the predominant oil I use in cooking)

EVOO is the best vegetable oil.

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Anonymous wrote:Researchers are finding that these oils are driving the diabetes and obesity epidemic, not to mention the inflammation problems.

+1

Correct. Vegetable oils are worse than refined sugar.

[Anonymous]

Other than avocado oil, is there another good substitute for canola oil for baking? We use it maybe a couple times a month making things like brownies, and maybe once a year or so if I make homemade donuts or frybread.
I guess the bigger problem is all the packaged snacks my kids get every day at lunch.

[Anonymous]

Sunflower oil is bad for you? Never heard this. I use it sometimes for these seed crusted chicken tenders I make sometimes. Also I put sunbutter in kids lunches all the time since we can’t use peanut butter.

What’s so bad about it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So if you can't eat seed oils, what would you use for cooking?

I use extra virgin olive oil for almost everything. I also use unprocessed leaf lard, butter, duck fat, and ghee occasionally.

"New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and depression."

"Canola oil is one of the most widely consumed vegetable oils, yet little is known about its health effects. Now, a study links canola oil consumption in the diet with worsened memory, worsened learning ability and weight gain in mice which model Alzheimer's disease. It's the first study to suggest that canola oil is more harmful than healthful for the brain."

"Some 'healthy' vegetable oils may actually increase risk of heart disease"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117080827.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171207141624.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131111122105.htm

Thank you for these links, especially the last one. These oils are killing us.

[Anonymous]

Had no idea.

I thought canola oil was good for us. We were told it was the healthy oil the way we're now being told olive oil is healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had no idea.

I thought canola oil was good for us. We were told it was the healthy oil the way we're now being told olive oil is healthy.

Yeah, we been had by our government in so many ways. Big business is in control, not the science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use peanut oil, mustard oil, olive oil, coconut oil, sesame oil, ghee and butter.

OP mentioned school lunches and you give a list of highly allergic and expensive items?

[Anonymous]

I found a video by a woman now living in Germany. Her eating habits have not changed since moving, still eating processed foods like sugar cereal and hot pockets, yet she lost 15 pounds.

She contributes it to the lack of additives and chemicals in their food compared to US food. She posted the box nutrition info for a sugar cereal found there and the US and the ingredients there was very short compared to the huge list on the US box.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Had no idea.

I thought canola oil was good for us. We were told it was the healthy oil the way we're now being told olive oil is healthy.

According to my dad’s cardiologist, coconut oil is the worst. She tells all her patients to avoid it in all forms.