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		lithocarpus 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods... The oil used is itself ultra processed and is not a natural food or whole food. It's a lipid isolated from the original food by a series of industrial processes.

UncleMeat 3 months ago [–]

The NOVA classification for canola oil is Category 2.

This is spinning wildly into seed oil crank stuff.

lithocarpus 3 months ago | [–]

My two sentences above are simple and verifiable with any reasonable definition of "whole food" or "natural food".

Do you know how canola oil is made?

UncleMeat 3 months ago | | [–]

Yes I'm familiar with the seed oil paranoia.

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