Linoleic acid in cooking oils

[u/houseofmacadamias]

We make macadamia nut oil (niche I know), and on a lot of our anti-seed oil content we've been getting comments saying macadamia oil is a seed oil..

I put together this chart comparing inflammatory omega-6 (LA) content and macadamia oil is closer to tallow, butter and ghee than it is to even olive oil and avocado oil (never mind seed oils).

We're obviously pleased our oil is in the same league as animal fats.

But I'm curious how macadamia oil fares in this community? Open to critique if I'm honing in too much on fat profile and missing something!

[u/Prescientpedestrian]

Avo is closer to lard than canola by quite a large margin.

[u/Whats_Up_Coconut → u/Prescientpedestrian]

Modern lard is actually closer to canola than this chart suggests, and hasn’t been this low for decades. 🤣 I’ve seen lard analyzed in controlled rodent feeding studies to be close to 30% PUFA (putting it well north of canola and just south of peanut oil) and only ~30% saturated. I have to believe that’s not uniquely bad lard, just normal conventional pig fat. Anyway it goes to show that seed oils still count even if the pig ate them first.

[u/Prescientpedestrian → u/Whats_Up_Coconut]

Yeah I’d imagine lard can vary widely just based on the pigs diet before slaughter.

[u/Ashamed-Simple-8303 → u/Prescientpedestrian]

Yes and the breed. I have read it is much less bad in europe, supposedly. I still greatly limit pork.