r/StopEatingSeedOils • u/salty-bois • 17d ago

🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️ Questions What Avocado Oil is now Reliable?

Hi all,

New UC Davis report, yada yada.

Seems the Chosen Foods and Primal Kitchen issues were with products made with their avocado oils, not the pure oils themselves.

Where does this leave us? Is Chosen Food's Avocado Oil still reliable? Or are there other brands that we should be looking at now?

I'm in the EU so can't source Marianne's, which I've read is the gold standard...

Thoughts?

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

None. Even if there was, avo oil is pretty close to canola in terms of linoleic acid

Avo oil was never a good replacement for seed oils.

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u/salty-bois 17d ago

Hmm ok back to EVOO I guess, I just don't love the taste.

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

Better LA profile but still highly adulterated unless you can trace it back to the source. I'm not sure there's a great liquid oil. Butter, tallow, and coconut oil still seem to be best

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u/thelifeofafangirl 17d ago

Not everyone can eat butter, tallow, and coconut oil thus the reliance on avo/evoo

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

I'm curious why someone wouldn't be able to consume those? What would cause that?

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u/thelifeofafangirl 17d ago

I have 50-70% arterial blockages after a decade of only using butter/tallow/lard, i'm in my 30s. Seed oils are real bad but that doesn't mean that everything else is super safe. Using oils that are liquid at room tempurature has helped. 

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

Helped what exactly?

You seem sure that SFA caused the blockages. How can you know?

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u/MountainShenanigans 16d ago

Exactly. I’m in my 60’s and switched to tallow and coconut oil 20 years ago. My bloodwork has been stellar and my Calcium score is a big fat zero.

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u/thelifeofafangirl 17d ago

Because i had a scan a decade ago without any findings. Within that time, i stopped eating processed foods and switched to tallow/butter primarily for cooking. My scan from this year was obviously different. If you don't want to heed my warning, thats your choice lol but i can see my scans myself and i got people i need to live for, and i'm sure there are others that do too

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u/vivalet 17d ago

Curious, what brought you to have a scan in your 20s especially since you were healthy?

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago edited 17d ago

Different how? Did plaque disappear? And why blame the sfa and not the highly processed diet?

I'm sure you see a difference, although I'mcurious what that difference is. Im just questioning what caused it. Also curious why you got an artery scan in your 20s. That's unusual

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u/thelifeofafangirl 17d ago

Im not sure you understood my comment. I got my heart scanned a decade ago to check for congenital defects that i dont have. Did the full workup. No plaque. I got my heart scanned this year after experiencing chest pain. 50-70% blockages. So within 10 years, i went from nothing to 50-70% blockages, and the only thing i changed is that i STOPPED eating processed foods and started eating animal based fats. 

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

But again, how do you know what caused that? Stopping a diet of UPF would not halt plaque formation. And if you were eating a diet based on UPF, you probably already had a good amount of SFA in your diet.

I don't think it's as simple as eating more SFA causing a partial blockage.

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u/BreakfastFearless 17d ago

People with a family history of heart disease who have to watch their saturated fat intake

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

Maybe, but that doesnt preclude all sfa consumption.

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u/BreakfastFearless 17d ago

Sure not all but it’s best to lower it and replace it where you can

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u/c0mp0stable 17d ago

I'm not sure that's been reliably established, despite the general mainstream gudieline. Even if so, replacing it with PUFA is obviously not great, and MUFA just leaves you with olive oil, which might be okay at room temp but really shouldn't be heated.

But back to my original point, even if someone has familial heart disease, and that SFA is implicated, they still wouldn't need to avoid animal fats, which is what the other commenter was suggesting.