Minimally-processed foods, like nuts or extra virgin oils, include a complex matrix of health-promoting nutrients. Highly-processed oils, on the other hand, have lost the vast majority of those healthful compounds, leaving mostly just the fatty acids which are more prone to oxidation (we’ll cover that next).
Refined vegetable oil oil vs. butter
This is the match-up that triggers the most arguing on the interwebs.
Let’s cover the major claims from both sides—plus what the research says.
🔴 The case for butter
Butter proponents argue that saturated fats have been unnecessarily vilified. They point to nutrition recommendations during the 1980s and 1990s that recommended people replace butter with trans-fat rich margarine.
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