Jessica Knurick
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I was so confused because it really looks like 1990s clip art.
Yeah, seed oils are quite villainized right now.
A seed oil are oils that come from seeds, sunflower oil, safflower oil, canola oil, which is rape seed oil.
Those types of oils are polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Is this sesame oil?
Mm-hmm, sesame oil.
So what's wrong with that?
There's nothing wrong with it.
Yeah, so in nutrition science, the thinking has been that they're polyunsaturated fatty acids and they're healthful oils to include in your diet.
So there's three different types of fatty acids that we eat.
So you have saturated fats.
If you let bacon grease sit, it hardens, right?
Because usually animal fats are saturated fats.
So they're hard at room temperature.
Then you have monounsaturated fats.
Those are things like avocados.
Avocado oil, olive oil, those are monounsaturated fats.