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  2. What Are Seed Oils—and Are They Bad? Here's What a ... - AOL

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    Seed Oil Uses "Seed oils are commonly found in kitchens in restaurants [and] homes, in fast food restaurants for deep-frying, and as an ingredient in many packaged and processed foods," says ...

  3. How Worried Should You Be About Seed Oils? Nutrition ... - AOL

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    Seed oils, such as canola and corn oil, are often preferred for cooking and frying, because they have a higher smoke point than other oils, like olive oil. Seed oils are also heavily used in ...

  4. Seed oils vs. butter and other animal fats: Which is ... - AOL

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    These seeds go through multiple processes to become cooking oil. First, the seeds are usually pressed, which extracts the oil by crushing the seeds, Lena Beal, cardiovascular dietitian and ...

  5. Seed oil misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Seed oils are characterized by the industrial process used to extract the oil from the seed and a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs). [10] Critics' "hateful eight" oils consist of canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran oils, [ 8 ] which are creations of industrialization in the early ...

  6. Urushiol - Wikipedia

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    Urushiol / ʊ ˈ r uː ʃ i. ɒ l / is an oily mixture of organic compounds with allergenic properties found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, especially Toxicodendron spp. (e.g., poison oak, Chinese lacquer tree, poison ivy, poison sumac), Comocladia spp. (maidenplums), Metopium spp.

  7. Edible oil refining - Wikipedia

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    Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil.. Raw vegetable oil, obtained from seeds by pressing, solvent extraction, contains free fatty acids and other components such as phospholipids, waxes, peroxides, aldehydes, and ketones, which contribute to undesirable flavor, odor, and appearance; [1] for these reasons, all the oil has ...

  8. Why are you being told to avoid seed oils?

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    Most claims about the dangers of seed oils tend to focus at least in part on inflammation — more specifically, that seed oils contain large amounts of omega-6s relative to omega-3s.

  9. Are Seed Oils Really Killing Us? We Asked the Experts - AOL

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    Technically, a seed oil is a cooking oil made by pressing seeds to extract the fat. But the current pariahs are canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, rice bran, sunflower, and safflower oils.