In South Africa sunflower oil is now more expensive than coconut oil
mayos also sharted out buckets of propaganda in the 1960s against saturated fat, because the industrial seed oil manufacturers were out of a job after WW2 (the oils were used for war machines). The secondary reason being that you can't grow coconuts in the US, apart from Florida (a lot of snack foods from before the 1950s used coconut oil by default, before the war messed up trade).
some of this was partially true (too much butter/animal fat is bad for you), but much of it was utterly false (like falsely equating butterfat with ALL saturated fats), when it's been shown that coconut oil is not equivalent to butter, and that butter's problems come mainly from its chain length rather than its degree of saturation
mayos also sharted out buckets of propaganda in the 1960s against saturated fat, because the industrial seed oil manufacturers were out of a job after WW2 (the oils were used for war machines). The secondary reason being that you can't grow coconuts in the US, apart from Florida (a lot of snack foods from before the 1950s used coconut oil by default, before the war messed up trade).
some of this was partially true (too much butter/animal fat is bad for you), but much of it was utterly false (like falsely equating butterfat with ALL saturated fats), when it's been shown that coconut oil is not equivalent to butter, and that butter's problems come mainly from its chain length rather than its degree of saturation
https://sciworthy.com/is-coconut-oil-really-better-for-you-than-butter/