Golden cooking oil being poured from a glass cruet into a frying pan on a gas hob

Are Seed Oils Bad for You? Not Harmful, Not a Health Food

Are seed oils bad for you? The specific claims have been tested. Here is what the trials and the large cohorts actually found — including where the sceptics still have a point. Are seed oils bad for you, or is that the loudest nutrition claim of the decade with the least behind it? The question … Read more

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Close-up of steamed white rice in a dark wooden bowl

Fried Rice Syndrome: The Real Risk in Reheating Rice

“Fried rice syndrome” gets the blame on the wrong step. The danger is not the reheating — it is what happened to the rice before it reached the fridge. Reheating rice has a reputation it half deserves. The risk is real, but it is not created in the microwave — it is created while a … Read more

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Cracked apricot stones with the pale kernels removed, beside a metal nutcracker and a halved apricot

Vitamin B17 and Apricot Seeds: How Many Are Dangerous

Apricot seeds are sold as a health food. The regulator’s own limit works out at less than one bitter kernel for a grown adult. Apricot seeds — the kernel inside the hard stone — turn up in health shops, in bags marked vitamin B17, and in advice that ranges from harmless to dangerous. The numbers … Read more

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