24 Comments
User's avatar
Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I can't believe those post is a year old because I remember it like yesterday! Ever since reading it the first time I have always checked labels for oil types. It feels nearly impossible to find any snack or food without these oils.

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Yeah it’s hard to eliminate it- the main thing is to keep from eating it all day long! And yes, it’s been a few months since it first came out- but time flies

Expand full comment
Philipp Maerzhaeuser's avatar

Such a great and entertaining way of presenting valuable information.

I didn’t know how bad vegetable oil is.

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

The main culprits for a lot of us are salad dressing, mayonnaise and margarine. Even if we are eating mostly healthy we might be getting a ton of vegetable oil from these sources. They also add it to a lot of keto products.

Expand full comment
Philipp Maerzhaeuser's avatar

Glad to say I`m not a fan of mayonnaise or margarine.

Ketchup, mustard, siracha…

I use cream cheese though, is that a victim of it too?

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

For cream cheese it’s necessary to read the label. I think in Europe it’s still safe. There is low-fat cream cheese in North America, it has the following: Modified Milk Ingredients, Water, Corn Starch, Salt, Corn Maltodextrin, Bacterial Culture, Sodium Citrate, Lactic Acid, Carob Bean Gum, Mono- And Diglycerides, Potassium Sorbate, Calcium Propionate, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Natural Flavour, Sorbic Acid. Contains: Milk.

But, no seed oil!

Expand full comment
Melissa Scala's avatar

You made a vegetable oil article interesting to read! Nicely done! And ohhhh... the oils. I put so many things BACK on the grocery store shelf when I see such oils on the label.

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

It’s frustrating, and the salad dressing section is one of the worst! But oat milk and mayonnaise are the ones that surprised me

Expand full comment
Melissa Scala's avatar

I never buy salad dressing - like ever! I keep good vinegar and olive oil on hand with some seasonings and herbs, and it’s perfect for my greens. I stopped buying oat milk because there are few brands that are just simply oats and water. Mayo —- oooofff… didn’t realize that either!

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Yeah- easy enough to make our own salad topping - but it’s disappointing if you read labels!

Expand full comment
Donna McArthur's avatar

This is one of the best headlines I've ever seen!!

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Thanks! I spend a lot of time on headlines trying to make them unique

Expand full comment
Cathy R. Payne's avatar

You're preaching to the choir here. I make my own mayonnaise, and know exactly what's in it, and how the hens who laid the eggs were raised. I haven't purchased corn, soy, or canola oil in forty years. I replaced Crisco with lard and tallow. Thanks for sharing this. My husband likes to think he eats healthy and doesn't realize that anything served in a Chinese, Mexican, or BBQ restaurant that he loves to eat is full of so much vegetable oil, and much of that is fried, deep-fried, or hidden in sauces and gravy. So bad.

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

As long as your husband doesn’t eat that way all the time!

Expand full comment
Cathy R. Payne's avatar

For sure!

Expand full comment
Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Yup. Canola was originally Canada machine oil— engine lubricant.

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

You can run a diesel engine on it, too!

Expand full comment
Lizzie Wingfield's avatar

Excellent article!

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Thanks!

Expand full comment
Marc Arginteanu's avatar

not all seed oils are created equal

https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/not-all-seed-oils-are-created-equal

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

True! But that one is actually a fruit oil, not a “vegetable” oil. Also, all of the harmful ones are from temperate climates where the oils in the plant have to be thinner, so they don’t solidify at lower temperatures. All of the tropical plants have o oil that will solidify at lower temperatures, and these oils are all more stable (coconut, olive, avocado.)

Expand full comment
Marc Arginteanu's avatar

good point

Expand full comment
Phoenix Bubbe's avatar

How do you account for peanut oil and coconut oil that have been used almost exclusively in 3rd world countries? Avocado oil? Olive oil?

I have another hypothesis/scenario of evil: Pharmaceutical companies (PHARMA)are heavily invested on the down-low in franken-food manufacturers and fast-food takeout companies (together, FRANKENFOODS) so they will have sufficient capital to develop ever-more refined, sweetened and hydrogenated seed oil infused foods which degrade human health, requiring ever more intervening (but NOT curative) pharmaceuticals for chronic and even deadly illnesses (think how many infusions of extremely expensive “anti” cancer meds are required to reach remission AND how many other meds are required to offset the side effects of chemotherapy). PHARMA benefits from both the reliable and ever-growing sources of sick people AND from FRANKENFOODS’ profits.

Conversely, FRANKENFOODS companies are heavily invested on the down-low in PHARMA, especially ones creating and selling “cures” or long-term meds for conditions caused by franken- and fast-foods and so PHARMA will have the capital to develop meds to intervene in illnesses caused by FRANKENFOODS. FRANKENFOODS benefit from PHARMA’s profits due to the growing population of sick persons it supplies to PHARMA.

Making and keeping people under- or mis- nourished and sick is BIG BUSINESS!

Expand full comment
Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

Like I mentioned in the article above, coconut oil, avocado oil and olive oil are on the healthy list. None of those are made from the seeds of the northern latitudes, so their chemical composition isn’t the same. Peanut oil isn’t as high in polyunsaturated oils as canola or the others, but it still has 30% and can cause your body to go out of balance.

I’ve also written several articles about Frankenfoods and drugs. You’re right, it is all part of the problem.

Expand full comment