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The Great Seed Oil Panic

The Great Seed Oil Panic

60-Second Science vor 8 Monaten

A food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them.

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Seed oils have become a target of wellness influencers and
high-profile public officials. They say that these widely used and
relatively inexpensive oils, which include canola, soybean and
sunflower oil, are toxic. But do we really need to panic? Host
Kendra Pierre-Louis speaks with food science expert Eric Decker to
unpack what seed oils actually are, how their fats compare with
those from other sources and whether claims about their toxicity
hold up to scientific scrutiny. Recommended Reading: RFK, Jr.,
Upsets Food Pyramid, Urging Americans to Eat More Meat E-mail us at
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newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Kendra Pierre-Louis,
Fonda Mwangi, Sushmita Pathak and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was
edited by Alex Sugiura, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and
Aaron Shattuck. Our theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.
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