But when it comes to the most basic things like whether a common food ingredient is healthy, all I can find online is misinformation, or at least contradicting information.
eg.
- trans fats are unequivocally bad and shouldn't be present in any amount in foods
- everyone pretends that trans fats don't exist in natural products, but nutritional labels say they exist in small amounts in milk and dairy products (esp. butter and ghee)
- even non-hydrogenated refined vegetable oils have some trans fats, nobody talks about this. I found out while reading nutritional labels of foods in the supermarket
- I haven't found any EVOL to have non-zero amount of trans fats reported on their labels
So, what gives?
It might be excusable if nobody cared about the subject and insufficient resources were put into studying the issue. But this has been an ongoing debate for at least half a century in the western media already :0)
The only takeaway that seems safe is this: for people of European origin the safest oil to use is cold pressed extra virgin olive oil and it helps to keep the cooking temps low.
The truth is probably hidden in plain sight within the thousands of study reports and research papers, I'm pretty sure if somebody with infinite wisdom crawled through the data they'd be able to distill the results. But obviously humanity can't do this shit at all. (Not that I don't understand why... but still)
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