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...

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Actually? cause I mean it sure sounds like it

    • POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        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

        • Animasta [any]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • crime [she/her, any]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah that's entirely what it is, and why most of the weird food shit is mostly American