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I love to eat those smoked oysters in cottonseed oil and it looks like the oil is reasonably healthy. I've read that it's one of the most unsaturated oils, comparable to safflower oil and corn oil.
But then I read on another website that it might be very unhealthy because of all the pesticides used on cotton crops.[PLAIN said:http://www.cottonseed.com/publications/facts.asp]..has[/PLAIN] a 2:1 ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids. Its fatty acid profile generally consists of 70% unsaturated fatty acids including 18% monounsaturated (oleic) and 52% polyunsaturated (linoleic) and 26% saturated (primarily palmitic and stearic).
What do you think?http://www.newconnexion.net/article/05-04/cottonseed.html said:Cottonseed oil is often used. This is because, quite simply, cottonseed oil is a waste product of the cotton industry, so it costs the food manufacturers next to nothing to procure a plentiful supply. The only problem with this is that cotton is not a food crop, therefore is not subject to the same restrictions as to pesticide and fungicide levels. In fact, cotton is one of the most heavily sprayed crops in the world, due to its susceptibility to the threats of insect predators, such as the boll weevil.
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