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Are seed oils really as harmful as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims?

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par Raysa El Zein, Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Westminster

RFK Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to head the us Health and Human Services Department, wrote on X that Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils. He joins the growing list of people claiming that these oils are toxic. But are they?

Seed oils include sunflower, rapeseed, corn and grapeseed oils. High heat, chemical solvents and extreme pressure are used to extract the oil from plant seeds. They are then further refined to stabilise it.

These refining processes can affect the chemical…

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