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Seed oils, including peanut oil and sunflower oil, have been in the news a lot recently. Dietitians explain if seed oils are healthy, and health risks of them.
A nutrition PhD and registered dietitian debunk the health dangers around oils like canola, grapeseed, and sunflower, and how ultraprocessed foods play a role.
Technically, a seed oil is a cooking oil made by pressing seeds to extract the fat. But the current pariahs are canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, rice bran, sunflower, and safflower oils.
Sunflower, corn, and soybean oil have a higher proportion of omega-6 fatty acids than oils from fish, walnuts, flaxseed, and rapeseed (canola). Omega-6 fatty acids constitute a growing proportion of Americans' fat intake and have been hypothesized to contribute to several negative health effects, including inflammation [17] and immunodeficiency ...
Rapeseed oil is the preferred oil stock for biodiesel production in most of Europe, accounting for about 80% of the feedstock, [citation needed] partly because rapeseed produces more oil per unit of land area compared to other oil sources, such as soybeans, but primarily because canola oil has a significantly lower gel point than most other ...
Rapeseed oil is the preferred oil stock for biodiesel production in most of Europe, accounting for about 80% of the feedstock, [citation needed] partly because rapeseed produces more oil per unit of land area compared to other oil sources, such as soybeans, but primarily because canola oil has a significantly lower gel point than most other ...
We consulted doctors and health experts to unpack exactly what role seed oils should play in your diet.
Toxic oil syndrome (TOS) or simply toxic syndrome (Spanish: síndrome del aceite tóxico or síndrome tóxico) is a musculoskeletal disease.A 1981 outbreak in Spain which affected about 25,600 people, with over 4,000 dying within a few months and a few thousand remaining disabled, is thought to have been caused by contaminated colza (rapeseed) oil.