Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fuzzi]

Definitely avoid seed oils. Olive and avocado are what we mostly use. Sometimes coconut.

You've got the right idea. There's excess linoleic acid in seed oils. There's evidence that it can increase inflammation in the body.

Tax (chopped leaves added today)

 

[Canadian Wind]

Do you have a reliable source that claims all seeds oils are unhealthy?
Because this is not true. Sunflower oil and sesame oil are good oils too.

It also depends on how they're extracted. Cold-pressed is healthier than heat extraction.

 

[Shadrach]

I get what you write, except for this one. ^^ Sunflower oil is not bad to use. Much better than butter. Olive oil (first press, not the refined one) seems to be better though, but is expensive. And the unfiltered is not the best to use for baking above 180C.

I’ve been looking for info in Dutch and find all kind of complicated and contradictory information about oils and where to use it for.

Sunflower oil isn't good for you. Most seed oils aren't good for you.
There has been lots written about the problems of using seed oils. The problem is, these oils are used in just about every pre made/mixed food one can buy.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/17/linoleic-acid.aspx

 

[Shadrach]

Another grey but dry day at around 11C. A bit of autumn mist made the day feel damp.
Pictures from yesterday 06/11.

Day off today (07/11) Had a birthday dinner with family last night and my stomach is still trying to recover. My changes in diet have resulted in a lower tolerance for heavy meals, in last nights case full on meat lasagna with a white chocolate and sweet base cheesecake for dessert.
Eldest and husband are at my place for dinner tonight. I'm experimenting.

 

[RoyalChick]

You've got the right idea. There's excess linoleic acid in seed oils. There's evidence that it can increase inflammation in the body.
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Tax (chopped leaves added today)
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Why do you chop the leaves? My chickens seem to be quite efficient at leaf-chopping so I give the task to them.

Interesting on the oils by the way. I use olive oil and for high temperature cooking, avocado oil. Sometimes a splash of peanut or sesame oil for specific flavors.

 

[RoyalChick]

Sunflower oil isn't good for you. Most seed oils aren't good for you.
There has been lots written about the problems of using seed oils. The problem is, these oils are used in just about every pre made/mixed food one can buy.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/07/17/linoleic-acid.aspx

I am going to have to go to some of the scientific sources on this. The article you post is interesting but has too much hyperbole for me to find it fully credible. I suspect it is directionally correct’ rather than fully true.
Of course I love that it is pro butter, because an egg fried in oil, whatever oil, is just not the same as an egg fried in butter!!

 

[RoyalChick]

Another grey but dry day at around 11C. A bit of autumn mist made the day feel damp.
Pictures from yesterday 06/11.
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Day off today (07/11) Had a birthday dinner with family last night and my stomach is still trying to recover. My changes in diet have resulted in a lower tolerance for heavy meals, in last nights case full on meat lasagna with a white chocolate and sweet base cheesecake for dessert.
Eldest and husband are at my place for dinner tonight. I'm experimenting.

Your birthday? Happy birthday!

 

[Perris]

I am going to have to go to some of the scientific sources on this.

fwiw, Raubenheimer and Simpson do not single out seed oils as a group anywhere in the book, but are bothered by interesterified fats, which are the artificial industrially synthesised successors to (now banned) trans fats, and which don't have to be declared on the ingredients list of UPF...

 

[Sally PB]

which don't have to be declared on the ingredients list of UPF

It amazes me what can be in food, but not have to be on the ingredient list.

For instance... honey can be 10% something else (usually, HFCS) and still be sold as "Pure Honey." We had a bee club meeting about extracting, bottling, labeling, and selling honey. The presenter told us this fact and said, "Please don't do this with your honey. Just... don't."

 

[Sally PB]

Tax:
Sunny, on my lap last summer.