Walnuts 'Combat Unhealthy Fats'

BBC ^ | 10-10-2006

[TruthSetsUFree]

I order mine online at www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com

They have an excellent quality coconut oil and if you buy it by the five gallon bucket it's cheaper than a lot of other sources. It keeps for a long time on the shelf so buying it in quantity is not a problem.

[HungarianGypsy]

Oops! You're right.

Good fats: butter; beef and lamb tallow; lard; chicken, goose, and duck fat; coconut, palm, and sesame oils; cold pressed olive oil; cold pressed flax oil; marine oils

[FreeKeys]

With 58% polyunsaturated oil(Long chain fatty acid) content I wouldn't call walnut healthy, and it's 12% Omega 3 content isn't as good as other sources.

There must be other properties the walnut has. I doubt this is about the oil content; you probably have to squeeze about a bushel of nuts in order to get a couple ounces of oil, don't you? If so, the form the oil is in would have a negligible health impact when you're eating whole nuts, right?

[A'elian' nation]

You seem pretty informative.
I don't consume anything with cottonseed oil in it, but I do find it curious that despite the fact that although practically every junk food contains cottonseed oil, you cannot buy a bottle of the stuff anywhere.
Dr. Andrew Weil says cottonseed oil is the closest thing to motor oil on the market.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Seed oils used to be the binders in paint until a petroleum chemist found a way to use oil, which was/is much cheaper. Some unrefined seed oils are still used as pesticides.

The seed oil industry was devastated. Enter the Edible Oil Coalition. To make seed oils edible you have to heat them to cook the toxins out of them which breaks down some of the Hydrogen bonds requiring hydrogenation to get an oil back from the sludge.

In addition to toxin removal and hydrogenation 'edible oils' are bleached, deodorized, colored, and perfumed. All of them are high in Polyunsaturated fat which is an immuno suppressor.

Cottonseed oils ratio is 24%saturated/26%monounsaturated/50%polyunsaturated. There exist a partially hydrogenated variety that has 70%polyunsaturation - Yikes.

[bvw]

That site follows what I was taught too -- with one omission. Walnuts are better with age. Put them (in the shell) in paper bags in the attic for a two-three-four years. The older nutmeat is tastier.

[A'elian' nation]

THANKS for that exceedingly informative but pithy response to my cottonseed oil question.

I still wonder why you find so much cottonseed oil in processed foods but you can't buy a bottle of it off the shelf. As you pointed out - the stuff reeks.

Thanks again.

[SunkenCiv]

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