Fast food: One of America's most beloved lunch spots has a new menu. It's misleading.
SlateSign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. A blog called Seed Oil Scout shared a guide for how to “Sweetgreen without seed oil,” letting readers know which of the various options for toppings they could order. “Our country is having a long-overdue conversation about food,” wrote Sweetgreen CEO Jonathan Neman, explaining that olive oil and avocado oil offer key health benefits because they are processed differently from seed oils. Though seed oils have many enemies, the most prominent might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who says that to consume them is to be “unknowingly poisoned.” A core component of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement seems to be that we should be removing things that sound scary, like fluoride from the water, or the process of pasteurization from the milk supply chain. “The claim that seed oils are ruining our health is especially rankling to nutrition scientists, who see them as a big step forward from butter and lard,” Alice Callahan, who holds a Ph.D. in nutrition, wrote in the New York Times.
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