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Which oils to avoid?


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2023 Jan 21, 7:13pm   29,845 views  233 comments

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I'm increasingly frustrated at the rapeseed oil (euphemistically called "Canola" oil by Canadian producers) and palm kernel oil that seems to be in almost all food. Pretty much everything at Trader Joe's seems to have one or the other. I was even at a Russian shop in Palo Alto today (Samovar, fun place) and found the poppyseed cake my grandmother used to make - except it was with margarine instead of butter, ugh.

Which of them are worth avoiding entirely?

Here are the fats and oils I think are bad:

- margarine (which is just canola and other crap oils hardened to make them stick in your arteries better)
- canola oil
- cottonseed oil (especially bad)
- palm kernel oil

I'm undecided about these:

- soybean oil
- sunflower seed oil
- avocado oil
- coconut oil
- peanut oil

I'm sure these are pretty good for you:

- olive oil
- butter
- lard (yes, I think lard is OK to eat)


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211   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Oct 27, 8:32pm  

Ahhhh, it was Cosco not Costco...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_tCL5-4c0

Sneaky fuckers.

I still haven't watched it.
213   komputodo   2024 Oct 28, 8:47am  

With the high prices of beef, 1lb of beef tallow will probably cost $8
214   komputodo   2024 Oct 28, 8:49am  

SoTex says

I saw a utube vid title (and thumbnail) about Costco olive oil turning to plastic. I haven't watch it.

How can that be? All that stuff is inspected by the FDA to insure it is real and of the highest quality.
215   komputodo   2024 Oct 28, 8:52am  

Patrick says

Remember to read the ingredients of your boxed processed foods, they will use these types of oils because they help with shelf life.

because the labels on the boxes are always true and can be trusted. umm, better yet, don't buy food in boxes.
216   Patrick   2024 Oct 28, 10:00am  

Yes, I've had the thought myself that the real ingredients are often different, and that there should be some private service or institution that tests food on behalf of consumers. But how to fund that?
221   Patrick   2024 Dec 1, 9:38pm  




Canola oil is a preservative. That's why it's included in so many things, like bread.
222   RC2006   2024 Dec 2, 6:51am  

Patrick says




Canola oil is a preservative. That's why it's included in so many things, like bread.


I started using an app called Yuka. Works great especially with my eyes going to shit trying to read the ingredients.
223   AD   2024 Dec 2, 8:33am  



224   WookieMan   2024 Dec 2, 9:42am  

RC2006 says

I started using an app called Yuka. Works great especially with my eyes going to shit trying to read the ingredients.

The font on printed labels is getting smaller and smaller. My eye sight is changing for sure as well, but it's retardedly small now. Even on stuff that's healthy like vitamins. It's almost as if they know they're hiding poison. I can read the warning on a pack of cigs across the room. Curious as to the small font size. Medication as well as far as directions and side effects. One reason why I stopped taking OTC meds.
226   RayAmerica   2024 Dec 14, 8:48am  

Cooking oil linked to colon cancer in early study, tied to inflammation

Results suggest that processed, packaged foods increase risk, but dietitians say other factors are at play

NOTE: almost all processed foods include a substantial amount of unhealthy oil in their product.
Get in the habit of reading all labels of processed foods, many of which consist of carcinogens that are banned in Europe, but approved for use by our corrupt FDA.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/cooking-oil-linked-colon-cancer-early-study-tied-inflammation
227   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Dec 14, 12:27pm  

RC2006 says

I started using an app called Yuka. Works great especially with my eyes going to shit trying to read the ingredients.


Same. Thanks for the tip! I just installed it.
228   Maga_Chaos_Monkey   2024 Dec 14, 12:30pm  

Damn, they sure asked me a lot of questions I had to lie about. Only a 3 day free trial as well. I'm just going to bring my stronger glasses to the grocery I guess.
229   WookieMan   2024 Dec 14, 1:19pm  

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

I'm just going to bring my stronger glasses to the grocery I guess.

I can't read the fine print on labels anymore. My thing is you kind of just know looking at the bottle or packaging. I do think most patnetters are above average intelligence at minimum. You know when you look at a product if it's trash or not.

I'm not sitting in a store that I can't read labels on by design. We all know what is trash. Don't buy it.
230   Patrick   2024 Dec 14, 3:42pm  

I'm nearsighted, so that's an advantage here. I just take off my glasses and can read labels very well.

Mostly I'm just trying to avoid rapeseed oil, aka "Canola" oil. I like challenges. That shit is everywhere. Even in otherwise fine bread, as an ingredient low down on the list, since it's so toxic that it works as a preservative too. "A floor polish and a dessert topping!" (For those who remember the old SNL)

Similar challenge in trying to live a 100% Google-free life. Google is the Canola oil of the internet. Toxic and everywhere.
231   Patrick   2024 Dec 14, 3:46pm  

Also trying to avoid installing any app.

The only reason apps exist is to take power away from you and spy on you.

Just about everything any app can do can also now be done via a web page that requires no install and is much, much more under your explicit control.

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