Posted on 10/19/2025 2:51:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
QUESTION: Hi Dr Zac, After eating fast food I often feel bloated, sluggish, and even a little nauseous. Recently, I’ve seen heaps of wellness influencers blaming seed oils like canola or soybean for inflammation, poor digestion, and overall “toxicity”. Is there actually any science behind this, or is it just another internet scapegoat? — Dani, 32, Albury NSW
ANSWER: Dear Dani, Thanks so much for questioning everything that you see on social media. Seed oils definitely are under the microscope at the moment but before you swear off canola oil let’s have a look at what the research really says. Spoiler, it’s more complicated than the real ingredients found in a cheeseburger or the dressing on your salad.
What exactly are seed oils, and why the backlash? Seed oils usually refer to those oils extracted from seeds such as canola, soybean, sunflower, corn or grape seed. These guys are high in polyunsaturated fats, particularly omega six fatty acids like linoleic acid.
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The bread is poison too.
Because of the refining process. Mostly hydrogenation of seed oils.
Watch a video on how they’re processed.
“Order smaller quantities of food.”
LOL
I order the Cheeseburger Happy Meal.
The oils are extracted under extreme heat and pressure which changes their chemical composition in ways that don't occur in nature... Not to mention the solvents used. The other main problem is the huge amounts of these oils that are in the modern industrial diet.
My daughter insisted that I use olive oil for cooking, and that’s it. And I try my best to not purchase products with oils that are harmful.
Your headline is much better.
I’m tired of being misquoted. My New Years resolution was NOT exercise, it was extra fries.
Years ago I was standing in line at Dairy Queen to order lunch for my clan. The guy in front of me finally turned around with a tray loaded with chili cheese dogs, onion rings, and chocolate sundaes. It was my doctor. He looked me right in the eye, smiled sheepishly, and said, “Damn, caught red-handed”.
If you drop the “why are” you answered your own question.
Answer to question #1, dairy cows, 2 to 5 pounds per day.
A fad. Much like added gluten to baked goods was the rage in 1960.
There’s another wrinkle.
What happens to hydrogenated oils when they reach the smoke point? They get oxidized in weird ways, breaking down. Canola (even when not burnt), gives off varnish or paint like odors when starting to turn rancid. Oxidation. Has a poor shelf life. Many if not most Vegetable oils turn rancid. The reason they are so widely used is because they are cheap. War time expedients migrated to full time peacetime use. Peanut oil is what 5 Guys uses to fry their … fries. Damn good.
I noticed peanut butters have turned soupy consistency as of late. They are loading it up with soybean oil or canola or whatever they got on hand that day. They changed the viscosity basically. Buncha nicklefvckers. “May contain one or more of the following.”
Hydrogenated oils, the ersatz fats tear my gut up. The fact they taste like ass is just the icing on the cake. I didn’t really discover this until I started paying close attention to what (and how much) I eat. Popcorn is good fiber, right? Helps keep things moving along right? Well not when popped in Crisco or Soybean oil. Locks my gut up, cramps, bloating, exactly opposite to what I supposed. Took me many years to figure out, because there’s a time lag.
Popping corn in Coconut oil, or Bacon grease, everything is like the good old days. Tastes WAY better. I bought three different brands of “natural” peanut butter to try out this week. Far more expensive than the cheap stuff, but we’ll see what’s what. I cook with beef tallow, lard, coconut oil. My digestion is much better, and it just tastes good. And since I cutout all the crap “food” I can afford to buy it, or at least the same difference.
...and their other donors profit off of poor health.
You do and you'll clean it up!
They are not natural oils, they are chemically processed to exist. Hydrogenated usually. Not great.
The doctor said I'm a beast. No, the doctor said you are obese.
The only crunches I do are when I accidentally sit on chips.
Canola oil leaves a chemical taste behind - I can’t use it. I use peanut oil mostly - food tastes way better.
Agreed.
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