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Came across this interesting blog post. Maybe the "SVO Users" subforum should be changed to "SSO Users" or "SGO Users." And knowing how unhealthy modern plant oils are, the last line is spot-on.
The Term “Vegetable Oil” Is False Advertising (Updated) – GNOLLS.ORG
The Term “Vegetable Oil” Is False Advertising
The term “vegetable oil” sounds healthy, because vegetables are healthy, right? Lettuce, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers…
…but that’s not what “vegetable oil” is made from. It’s made from grains, seeds, and beans.
Corn oil: grain
“Canola” (rapeseed) oil: seed
Soybean oil: bean
Sunflower oil: seed
Safflower oil: seed
Peanut oil: bean (yes, peanuts are beans, not nuts)
Cottonseed oil: seed
Olive oil: fruit. Yes, olive oil is the exception, which is why it’s not bad for you.
“Grain oil” and “seed oil” just don’t have the same healthy implications, do they?
Not to mention that, with the exception of olive oil (and a few oddballs like cold-pressed peanut oil), all “vegetable” oils are extracted using the poisonous solvent hexane—and this chemical process is responsible for over two-thirds of the hexane emissions in the United States. Soybean processing facilities emit a gallon of hexane for each ton of soybeans processed—which means a large soy processing plant emits over five million pounds of hexane per year!
Even more importantly, hexane processing strips the remaining nutrients from the oil, and turns a significant quantity of polyunsaturated fats into inflammatory, artery-clogging trans fats! (Anywhere from 0.5% to 4.2% of the total, according to this paper…and you won’t see them on the nutrition label, either.) Since replacing just 2% of calories with dietary trans fat is associated with a doubling of death risk from cardiovascular disease, this is a significant health issue.
“Vegetable oil” isn’t a food. It’s an industrial product, and it has no place in our diet.
Let’s start calling it what it is—seed oil—
—and let’s put it where it belongs—in our cars.
The term “vegetable oil” sounds healthy, because vegetables are healthy, right? Lettuce, broccoli, peppers, cucumbers…
…but that’s not what “vegetable oil” is made from. It’s made from grains, seeds, and beans.
Corn oil: grain
“Canola” (rapeseed) oil: seed
Soybean oil: bean
Sunflower oil: seed
Safflower oil: seed
Peanut oil: bean (yes, peanuts are beans, not nuts)
Cottonseed oil: seed
Olive oil: fruit. Yes, olive oil is the exception, which is why it’s not bad for you.
“Grain oil” and “seed oil” just don’t have the same healthy implications, do they?
Not to mention that, with the exception of olive oil (and a few oddballs like cold-pressed peanut oil), all “vegetable” oils are extracted using the poisonous solvent hexane—and this chemical process is responsible for over two-thirds of the hexane emissions in the United States. Soybean processing facilities emit a gallon of hexane for each ton of soybeans processed—which means a large soy processing plant emits over five million pounds of hexane per year!
Even more importantly, hexane processing strips the remaining nutrients from the oil, and turns a significant quantity of polyunsaturated fats into inflammatory, artery-clogging trans fats! (Anywhere from 0.5% to 4.2% of the total, according to this paper…and you won’t see them on the nutrition label, either.) Since replacing just 2% of calories with dietary trans fat is associated with a doubling of death risk from cardiovascular disease, this is a significant health issue.
“Vegetable oil” isn’t a food. It’s an industrial product, and it has no place in our diet.
Let’s start calling it what it is—seed oil—
—and let’s put it where it belongs—in our cars.
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