I just stumbled on a twitter thread about rise of obesity in the last fifty years and there are dozens of frog pfps going "seed oils".
Here in Russia people have been cooking everything with sunflower seed oil for like century and a half...
Please elaborate. I've always used sunflower oil as a cheap oil when I don't need/want taste. I thought it was normal in the US too.
The oil itself is fine for normal oil uses, certain groups of people (usually americans) are just super weird about lauding or demonizing random foods
just super weird about lauding or demonizing random foods
That seems like the most consistent thing here. People focusing on one single ingredient that's the root of all evil, trying to convince themselves that the same diet of burgers and fries would suddenly become super healthy if they used slightly different oil and slightly different sugar.
Yeah that's entirely what it is, and why most of the weird food shit is mostly American
The food is all cut with corn syrup, the cities are not walkable, healthcare is unaffordable to many, poor people don't have time to cook for themselves or their families, and there's plastic in the tap water. But no, ur consumer choice of frying oil is the problem.
I mean, half of those are unhinged right-wingers. Many are convinced they are being purposely poisoned by the global elites as a part of some nefarious plan.
:so-true: you see the problem isn't deep-frying butter, it's that you're deep-frying your butter in the Bad Oil!
Is this why old Japanese racists say that Americans smell like butter?
I assume this is about pop nutrition logic about omega-6 content or something but I don't really know.
Idk I always heard seed oils were bad for you so I try to use olive mostly, but sesame oil is too good to pass up now and again.
Olive is really bad at high heats, safflower oil works great for frying and I think is supposed to be fairly healthy.
Yeah I don't bake with it. I do fry with the non-virgin stuff when I can.
I haven't seen the meme, but I will use this opportunity to share a fascinating article on counterfeit olive oil.
https://archive.fo/3Fhhq
However, by early 1992 Ribatti and his associates were under investigation by the Guardia di Finanza, the Finance Ministry’s military-police force.
lmao why does the Finance Ministry have a military-police force?
Better yet, why does the Ministry of Health?
“The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S. Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, told me.
Something to do with vegetable oil being highly processed and possibly containing residue from the refining process. Or it oxidizes and goes rancid faster than saturated oil. Or it's less nutritious and makes your cells fragile or something. I guess you're supposed to use avocado oil or olive oil, but a lot of those are counterfeit.
I'm not a chemist or a biologist or nutritionist or whatever so I have no idea if any of this stuff is true, but generally speaking it's probably a good idea to eat less fried food.
As long as we're not using cottonseed oil, the stuff isn't always food grade...
