I have always cooked with seed oils and have been seeing contradictory information about whether they’re good or bad. Food science is something I don’t quite understand so please, explain it like I’m five.
edit: thank you for everyone’s responses. I will continue life as normal and cook with my seed oils
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Palm seed oil (and the like) are increasing found in processed food products (oat milk, almond milk etc) as it is a cheap way to cut more expensive products and increase profits. This is the same money making a tactic drug dealers use with baking soda etc. The problem is corporations destroy ecosystems, animal habitats (see: The Orangutan fighting the tree cutting machine) to plant only this crop. See also: the Amazon Rainforest.
It’s flavor.
Oil is fat so here’s the breakdown. The good/bad is based on the type of fat and quantity consumed. Nothing and everything are dangerous. Dosing is what matters. Drinking too much water can kill you.
Unsaturated is easiest for your body to breakdown and can be used sooner so you retain less
Saturated is more difficult to break down.
Trans fats are unsaturated but have a different shape and a double bond so are more difficult to break down.(Partially hydrogenated means trans is possible regardless of the label. Fully hydrogenated is a saturated and can’t be trans)
The most unhealthy fat is artificially saturated fat, which tends to form awkward “trans bonds” not usually found in nature. Some natural fats have trans bonds and those ones seem OK, but the artificially created trans bonds seem to be quite unhealthy, and have given all fats, including naturally saturated fats and natural trans fats a bad name.
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