In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast
May 20, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
In this week's nugget we are back to evidence-based myth busting! So, the American dietary guidelines favour olive oil, butter, and beef tallow. And urge caution on seed oils. This isn't the first…
We haven't done a Nugget episode on one specific paper for a while now, so it seemed a good time to highlight a new paper published on seed oils.
Now, over the past few years, seed oils have gone from being a fairly boring kitchen ingredient to one of the Internet's biggest nutrition controversies.
I think when we were growing up, Daisy, they were commonly referred to as vegetable oils.
Seed oils specifically are a subset of vegetable oils that refer to oils extracted from a seed.
These include rapeseed, also known as canola oil, sunflower, sesame and corn, among others.
And you'll hear claims that industrially produced seed oils are pro-inflammatory, metabolically harmful, and that they can even cause chronic disease.
And these sorts of claims have spread rapidly across certain podcasts, social media channels, and wellness communities.
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We haven't done a Nugget episode on one specific paper for a while now, so it seemed a good time to highlight a new paper published on seed oils.
Now, over the past few years, seed oils have gone from being a fairly boring kitchen ingredient to one of the Internet's biggest nutrition controversies.
I think when we were growing up, Daisy, they were commonly referred to as vegetable oils.
Seed oils specifically are a subset of vegetable oils that refer to oils extracted from a seed.
These include rapeseed, also known as canola oil, sunflower, sesame and corn, among others.
And you'll hear claims that industrially produced seed oils are pro-inflammatory, metabolically harmful, and that they can even cause chronic disease.
And these sorts of claims have spread rapidly across certain podcasts, social media channels, and wellness communities.
