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Today’s post is actually about edible oils. Well, they’re
all technically edible – they can all be swallowed and digested – but as
for being palatable, let alone healthful? That remains to be seen. Not
all oils are created equal, especially given the fact that most of the
ones people use nowadays are actually created in an industrial
laboratory. No oil “exists naturally,” mind you. Olive oil isn’t
harvested by leaving open containers under leaking, dripping olives on
the branch, nor is that liquid sloshing around inside a coconut pure
oil. I’m not trying to disparage processing in and of itself. It takes a
certain amount of processing to get any sort of oil, but a good general
rule is to avoid consuming the oils that require processing on a large
scale. If it involves an industrial plant, multiple stainless steel
vats, a deodorizer, a de-gummer, and the harsh petroleum-derived solvent
known as hexane, I wouldn’t eat it. But that’s just me (and Grok, who probably wasn’t processing wild rapeseed to get the precious canola oil).
But this is the Definitive Guide to Oils. Everything goes. No stone
left unturned. No oil left un-tasted and bereft of analysis for fatty
acid profile, oxidative pote
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