Many of us avoid seed oils because of their inflammatory Omega 6 content. Being vigilant about avoiding them did wonders for my rosacea, which spurred me on to use diet to manage a more dangerous autoimmune condition. Which has been going well with a carnivore approach with a low oxalate twist.

Frankly I don't know if there are any beneficial compounds in soy. It's been wildly marketed as a wonder food" without much basis. The ancient cultures who grow it let it ferment to reduce the level of plant toxins.

But I know food manufacturers don't.

There is no need to "design healthier dietary oils". Just eat natural ones!

There is more profit in designer oils!

SB....fermented products support estrogen levels. The oils are a different issue: no solvent based oil is natural. They are grain based. Not natural!

This one is pretty easy for me to avoid.

I have not bought any processed seed oils since reading Primal Blueprint early in 2010. I’m not obsessive about avoiding every drop of it in restaurants, etc. but eating Whole Foods still has a positive effect.
My eczema completely cleared up, Vit D levels finally improved, and I do not sunburn.

I don't trust it, either. Like Janet, I don't worry about the odd serving, but I try to keep it to a minimum. Considering what they have to do to so-called 'vegetable' oils to make them edible - extraction with hexane, deodorizing, etc - no thanks, I'll use plain oil and fat.

Similar result of being almost sunburn-proof, too.

(ETA) Something sick and weird to me about soybean oil is that it's used in TPN (total parenteral nutrition). You're already in big trouble if you're being fed intravenously... and it's soybean oil?! I thought of that when reading this thread. Lo and behold, a twitter follow who's a nutrition practitioner (S. African) just posted a link to this 2022 study: Hospital change to mixed lipid emulsion from soybean oil-based lipid emulsion for parenteral nutrition in hospitalized and critically ill adults improves outcomes: a pre–post-comparative study.

I used to break out in a rash on my arms every spring as I started wearing short sleeved shirts. It stopped many years ago after I started eating what I called then low carb paleo. I always figured that its having gone away was somehow caused by my dietary change. At that time I also stopped eating seed oils so maybe that's what did it. Whatever the cause I still stay away from all seed oils.

Coconut has become my goto fat and fiber source. It goes in my morning smoothie as a medium chain triglyceride which goes right into energy use. Coconut wraps make my meat and cheese a sandwich.

Real food is so much more than stuff which takes up space in one's stomach. Which is the overwhelming attitude of most people out there. And if they do think about it, PLANTS = GOOD appears in their head and that's as far as it goes. It's certainly used as a blunt tool on scientific opposition, the way the corporate press accepted the wildly overstated "danger" of farting cows.

The hateful 8 oils - Soy Oil is included

Canola, Corn, Cottonseed, Soy, Sunflower, Safflower, Grapeseed, and Rice Bran. I avoid these.

There are plenty of articles on this, here is one that came up with a google search https://jacksonschips.com/blogs/blo...hy-or-unhealthy

Bob

I remember the days when McDonald's french fries were fried in tallow!! Maybe,MAYBE, that was a better fry healthwise.

Certainly were tasty.

A rare treat.

The ultimate fry, I am told, uses duck fat.

In stark contrast, seed oils are a huge part of the health crisis, when we look at their inflammatory qualities and the cascading effects.

Duck fat is amazingly good.

My mom used to fry potatoes in bacon grease. Mmmmmmmmm.

I don't eat potatoes anymore, but if were to cook some, that's how I would want them fried.

Bob

If Kellogg had known that the consumption of soybean oil decreased the levels of oxytocin, the “love hormone”, he would have told people to pour it on cereal instead of milk. Anything to decrease libido.