re: Health benefits of the "devils condiment", Mayo. Why does it get such a bad rap?

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Think of a world without Mayo on Po-Boys

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It’s too squishy.

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When you make your first tomato sandwich with [Duke's], that flavor is locked into your brain, and every time you make mayonnaise you’re chasing that flavor. And then you wonder, ‘Why am I even making my own mayonnaise?’ I haven’t made mayonnaise in ten years.

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and cane sugar instead of crap oil and high fructose corn syrup.

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mustard is the only of the "big three" of condiments that actually tastes better homemade. Commercially produced ketchup(heinz) and mayo(dukes) are unequivocally better products than any homemade version, of which i have tasted/made countless versions

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No potato salad for you then...

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Soybean oil = bad
Canola oil = Bad

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In the process of making and refining these types of oils, it leads to PUFas (rancid polyunsaturated fatty acids) which DO NOT hold up well to high heats. In the process of being extracted from the seed these oils oxidize and turn into trans fats. The smell is so rancid that a cleaning process has to take place using bleach to deodorize it.

Avoid:
margarine
Canola oil
Vegetable oil
Soybean
Safflower
Corn oils
Margarine (or any other ‘buttery’ spread)

But most of all AVOID Hydrogenated oils (Crisco and margarine) ~ This is one of the most dangerous products on the market today! It has actually been BANNED in 2 European countries, but not ours.

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USE:
1. EVOO ~ although Extra virgin olive oil contains a high amount of saturated fat (about 12%) it is one of the few unrefined oils. This means the antioxidants in the original fruit are retained because the oil is extracted by machine only. Olive oil is usually good 3-12 months after it has been bottled. After 2 years you can expect the fruity flavors to begin disappearing. It is best to buy your oil from a local store that specializes in oils. Purchase them in smaller quantities so they are not sitting in your pantry for months. And NEVER store them over the stove. Keep it sealed and out of light.

2. Olive oil ~ this can be tricky because it is also blended using refined, virgin and extra virgin olive oils. Be careful and read labels

3. Butter (like eggs and coconut oil) have been given a bad rap. These are the same marketers who said aspartame and margarine were healthy choices! But butter is a good safe WHOLE FOOD choice. The best choice would be butter from raw milk grass fed cows and the second choice, which is more accessible to most of us, is organic, which is from milk of grass fed cows with NO rBGH injected into them.

4. Coconut oil ~ coconut oil is the least fattening of all oils. It has gotten a bad rap back in the 1970s, but the misinformation out there is outdated and coconut oil is one of the better oils for you. For more detailed information see my post Coconut Oil ~ What you didn’t know. I am still experimenting with this myself.

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