Avocado and olives are fruit, and coconut is a nut, so no they’re not seed oils. The most common seed oils are:
Corn kernels, soybeans and peanuts are technically not seeds but avoid anyway.
I 100% agree with this! It is so hard to buy anything bc of seed oils. Even “healthy” options will end up having seed oils in it.
This just goes along with having dual employed federal workers. They get paid by Dole, and the FDA, for example. Same with the NIH, CDC, and several other agencies
I would like to get some clarification. What exactly does.” Remove seed oils from ALL food”mean?!
Are we talking about pre-manufactured meals? Are we talking about restaurants? Are we talking about convenience food?
I cook 90% of my meals from scratch. When I say scratch, I mean, basic ingredients, not pre-manufactured ingredients. For certain cooking techniques I would like to have the freedom to use a certain type of fat/cooking oil. I do use grapeseed oil every now and then. I do not want grapeseed oil to be banned off the shelf in a grocery store. for Asian dishes I use sesame oil. I do not want sesame oil to be banned from the shelves in the grocery store.
I strongly believe preparing meals with love and passion the way they have been prepared for hundreds of years does not hurt your body. Nor does it cause modern day diseases. Moderation is key in everything! Life is always about balance! Traditional Mediterranean cuisine is a perfect example! The American perception of a healthy nutrition in the last 50 years has caused one extreme after the other. None of them were healthy! The whole trend of zero sugar has lead to an abundance of extremely unhealthy artificial sweeteners. The whole trend of a fat free diet has led to an abundance of artificial zero fat dairy products. None of them are healthy in any shape or form! At one point meat was the enemy, the next day we were facing high protein nutrition.
When I look at photographs of the 1950s, 60s and 70s people look healthy and moderate! At this point people cook their meals from scratch from basic ingredients. The key problem is a food industry that produces food out of chemical parts rather than natural ingredients… The second problem is the convenience of people to degrade food to a necessity.
The change starts with the choice of what to eat and where to source it from.
The most important factor is transparency, we need to know the quality of our food, how it was sourced and how it was put together. We need to know the ingredients. Any kind of “general ban”, even if it is meant to make peoples life safer, may be as well be counterproductive. At least in niches!
No it’s sunflower seed oil that’s the worst and it’s in everything because it’s cheap. It’s inflammatory. Coconut oil causes high cholesterol. Safer oils are avocado and olive oils which are from fruits not seeds and countries that rely on them tend to have healthier populations, like Italy.
Yes!
At the very least there should be appropriate cautions/labeling. Seed oils absolutely fuel metabolic dysfunction. Grains, sugars and over consumption of carbohydrates in general also contribute as did the unnecessary vilification of animal fats (red meat/eggs/whole milk). The whole food pyramid needs to be torn up and we need to re-educate America.
Reevaluation of whether to allow these to be used based on 3rd party and independent studies, and also a reevaluation to the marketing of such products as a healthy food. There are many foods on the market that contain these harmful oils yet they are marketed as healthy, which in turn many believe and buy and suffer the consequences. This can be somewhat alleviated by providing better education on what seed oils are, what effects they can have on the human body (for example: benefits/risks when eaten raw or heated, smoke point benefits/risks), and whether they are truely healthy or not. But it needs to be taken further…
Similar to dyes, natural flavors, MSG, and a million other additives that can be harmful and deadly to our bodies… the Government needs to be public servants to the people and put this as a top priority… rather than filling the pockets of big pharma and food monopolies with kickbacks and funding. Perform better research (third party / independent only), then educate the people based on the findings, begin a revamp on what is allowed to be sold/imported for sale, and shift to a better way of living for everone.
This topic also is discussing much of the same but in terms of food dye:
Removeing seeds from food brings us back to china and their plastic lettuce
Great idea. I went seed oil free (mostly, it’s kind of hard to avoid completely if you ever eat at a restaurant - but www.localfats.com has a website to help) and it would be much nicer to be able to buy stuff like hummus at the grocery store again without the canola, soy and sunflower seed oils they put in it for no darn good reason except it’s cheaper than real fats.
At least have a public service campaign. Let’s start by printing flyers and sharing with everyone. Feel free to use this flyer to illustrate the insane poison potential of very high omega 6 oils–not fit for human consumption! Amazing illustrations and graphs.
This is by far the most inflammatory health destroying aspect of much processed food. Know the good from the poison. Native populations eat vastly different diets, yet have minimal modern civilizational diseases. The common thread? Omega 6 daily caloric intake well below 2%. The average American diet? Well beyond 12%!
Spread the word, save someone’s health.