Vegetable oil

Vegetable oil was originally a by-product of Proctor and Gamble’s soap-making process and condemned as “toxic waste”. Then they realised they could make a buck by hydrogenating cottonseed oil and passing it off as a cooking oil. It wasn’t long before other hydrogenated oils like canola, soybean and sunflower oils hit the shelves. Paid scientists began singing their praises and advised consuming them in place of “unhealthy” animal-based saturated fats that people had ate for hundreds of years without any issue.