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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Eh, I love mayo but realistically? You accidentally buy one jar of poorly sealed mayo and you could get botulism
It’s not, in moderation, but canola oil and seed oils are unhealthy. You can easily make your own mayo or buy mayo with alternative oils like avocado or olive oil.
I thought I was on the Irish subreddit and am now massively disappointed as I’ve long wanted to know the answer to why Mayo is so unhealthy
It’s almost entirely oil. Oil, of course, isn’t unhealthy in small doses, but it’s really easy to let it get out of hand and eat too much oil. Just one tablespoon of olive oil has 119 calories. 5 to 7 of those is the caloric content of an entire meal, and people can easily dump that much on a dish.
The only thing really holding people back from eating way too much oil is that its texture and flavor, when by itself and unseasoned, is unpalatable. Putting too much oil on food can make it taste bad. Enter mayonnaise, which comes seasoned and balanced with acid and with a really pleasant texture, which means it can get out of control quickly.
I worked at a Subway back in the day. Some people have no self control with the mayonnaise. it just tastes too good to them.
Eggs and honey.
Honey contains sugar. Multiple types, but the bad (fructose-containing) ones among them.
The most famous among them is table sugar – sucrose. It’s an addictive, toxic drug that interferes with multiple hormones that govern how much of everything else we eat. Not because it contains calories, but because it stuffs with our leptin, ghrelin and dopamine hormones, which is the system our body uses to determine when to start eating and when to stop.
Eating more sugar than our body can handle results in a lot of bad stuff, from diabetes to fatty liver disease to some cancers.
Since a lot of our food supply is laced with it, all contributors are in the “limit or eliminate if you can” pile, and that pile includes honey and derivates like mayo.
Oil…. Can be considered unhealthy, it’s literally the most calorie dense substance. Sure you can put a drizzle on a salad or whatever but it adds up **very** quick.
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