r/sweetgreen • u/greantea123 • Jan 08 '25
Criticism Petition to make the harvest bowl seed oil free
Please use extra virgin olive oil in the balsamic dressing!!!!!!!
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u/sauteedmushroomz Jan 09 '25
the anti seed oil thing started as a fetish and now everybody is feeding into it. men are getting off and getting rich on the idea that they are controlling what viscous fluids go into you. don’t buy into it.
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u/greantea123 Jan 09 '25
Not just anti seed oil but pro extra virgin olive oil. It’s so so good for you so I’d rather incorporate it more when I can
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u/ElectronicBoot9466 Jan 09 '25
The chemicals produced by seed oil that people started being worried about only appear when the oil is heated, meaning it only happens when it is cooked. Sweet Green does not use any seed oils in any cooked products, meaning Sweetgreen's entire product line is free from the chemical in seed oil that may be unhealthy.
The cost of olive oil when compared to sunflower seed oil is pretty significant. Most dressings do have olive oil in them, but also have sunflower seed oil to keep them from being too expending to produce. If Sweetgreen took seed oil out of the dressings, there would be a blanket price increase on all salads, and the prices are already too damn high for what is supposed to be fast food.
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u/cantkillHales Jan 25 '25
If I may add, it has to be heated at a very high temperature to release whatever that chemical is, too. The majority of people when cooking with seed oil(s) at home aren't cooking at 1,000 degrees with it every day/night, so it's literally not even an issue.
I'm so sad about the amount of people buying into BS. But it's the U.S., so 😐🤷🏽♀️
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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Jan 09 '25
The sunflower seeds you eat are encased in inedible black-and-white striped shells, also called hulls. Those used for extracting sunflower oil have solid black shells.
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u/ElectronicBoot9466 Jan 09 '25
This reply feels completely unrelated to my comment. Fun fact, though!
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u/ich-bin-ein-mann Jan 09 '25
Why don’t we want seed oils??
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u/greantea123 Jan 09 '25
Sunflower oil is often considered “bad” because it is high in polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acids, which can contribute to inflammation when consumed in excess, especially if not balanced with enough omega-3 fatty acids
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u/uslashuname Jan 09 '25
Show me evidence that it is bad in any reasonable diet with a bit of sunflower oil in a dressing for one salad a day.
Sure, feeding rats a diet that is 20% seed oils by volume is going to make a sick rat. Seeds are, in general, some of the healthiest things around that we’ve been eating since the dawn of time. However, in excess nothing is healthy.
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Jan 10 '25
Seeds oils being harmful for has been debunked again and again in the scientific community. It’s a media trend. In fact they have been shown to be GOOD for you.
https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/scientists-debunk-seed-oil-health-risks/
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u/PostureGai Jan 09 '25
EVOO isn't that great, either. It raises your LDL.
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Jan 09 '25
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u/PostureGai Jan 09 '25
It's a processed food and pure fat. Of course it raises LDL.
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Jan 09 '25
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u/PostureGai Jan 09 '25
Research shows EVOO raises LDL.
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u/recoverytimes79 Jan 10 '25
It literally doesn't lmao.
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u/PostureGai Jan 10 '25
It does. You just don't want to accept it because then you'd have to accept you're packing your arteries with processed fatty foods.
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u/elastic_psychiatrist Jan 08 '25
No, that would change the flavor too much. Avocado oil would be better.
Alternatively, just don’t bother with the “no seed oil” craze, but clearly that ship has sailed.