Hey everyone.. maybe this is a dumb question, but recently I’ve been wondering why people hate Mayo and say it’s so unhealthy!
Like isn’t it just.. eggs, oil, and seasoning?
Those are all things that to their own extents aren’t considered unhealthy when being looked individually, so why is it that when put together to create Mayo, they suddenly create something unhealthy?
I know Mayo is considered a fat, but I didn’t think it was THAT bad? And aren’t there healthy fats as well?
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For several decades, eggs and oils were believed to be a strong cause of heart disease. They were individually things we were told to minimize or avoid (and that extended to foods like butter, for which we were told to substitute margarine). So mayonnaise was also considered an unhealthy condiment.
Even today [an article on the Mayo Clinic website](https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/is-it-healthy-to-eat-eggs-every-day) says that “healthy people may be able to eat up to seven eggs a week without affecting their heart health.”
(Edited to add: my point is that seems surprisingly restrictive for a major medical center to say, considering what is now understood, mostly, to be a misunderstanding about dietary cholesterol.)
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