You might see oils in everything from your favorite snacks to bottles of salad dressing, but are they secretly sabotaging your health or just getting a bad rap?
Fitness and nutrition expert Jody Trierweiler joined “Live In The D” to help clear up questions about seed oils.
First, Jody explained that seed oils are any oil that’s made from compressed seeds.
Seed oils are often used as cooking oils. The list of seed oils includes canola oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, and others.
“There is no grand consensus on whether seed oils truly are good or bad unless they’re heated to very high temperatures,” Jody said.
“When they do heat the polyunsaturated fat, which is the seed oil, it breaks down. It’s very unstable, and it creates what we call free radicals. It oxidizes, and we do know in the body that’s bad,” Jody said.
Jody explained that a bad scenario would be seed oil in a deep fryer that’s being reheated over and over.
Watch the video above to learn more about seed oils and to see a taste test of products made with different oils on “Live In The D.”