How to make "vegetable" oil:
1. Collect seeds (soy, corn, canola, cottonseed)
2. Heat to 200°C to extract oil
3. Add hexane (petroleum solvent also used in glue and varnish)
4. Boil off most of the hexane (most, not all)
5. Add sodium hydroxide (drain cleaner) to remove impurities
6. Bleach it because it's brown and smells like fish
7. Deodorize it at 250°C because it smells rancid
8. Add synthetic antioxidants to slow down (not prevent) oxidation
Congratulations. You've made a substance that:
- Didn't exist before 1900
- Requires industrial chemicals to produce
- Oxidizes in your body
- Integrates into cell membranes for 600+ days
- Creates inflammation for years
But at least it's from plants. So it must be healthy. Are we not foolish?
"Vegetable oil" is marketing fraud. There are no vegetables in it. It's made from seeds:
- Soybean oil (soybeans are legumes, not vegetables)
- Canola oil (rapeseed, not a vegetable)
- Corn oil (corn is a grain, not a vegetable)
- Sunflower oil (sunflower seeds, not vegetables)
- Safflower oil (safflower seeds, not vegetables)
If they called it "seed oil" or "industrial waste oil" you wouldn't buy it. So they call it "vegetable oil" and put vegetables on the label. It's not from vegetables. It's from seeds processed with industrial chemicals.
The name is designed to make you think you're consuming plants. You're consuming chemically-extracted, bleached, deodorized polyunsaturated fat that's been heat-damaged before you even open the bottle.
But "vegetable" sounds healthy. That's the entire con. Linguistic fraud to sell industrial waste as health food. Seed oils were invented as machine lubricants, and only later as cooking oil.
Now this machine lubricant makes up 30% of American's daily calories. Racks up oxidative stress even if "cold-pressed". Promotes inflammation, insulin resistance and fat storage. Breaks down into carcinogenic byproducts even at body temperature. And has zero nutritional value. Yet, it's somehow the healthy alternative to animal fats . What a joke!
How to read ingredient labels:
See: Soybean oil -> Put it back
See: Canola oil -> Put it back
See: Sunflower oil -> Put it back
See: Heart healthy-> Put it back
See: Corn oil -> Put it back
See: Cottonseed oil -> Put it back
See: "Vegetable oil" - > Put it back
See: "Vegetable oil blend" -> Run away
See: Butter, tallow, lard -> Buy immediately
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