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IIRC, you need a 1/5 (Omega 3 / Omega 6) ratio, but our usual diet is so poor in the former that we end up deprived.

Palm oil, which is everywhere, has Omega 6 aplenty, and (virtually?) no Omega 3. In Europe, it is usually listed as "vegetal oil" in the ingredients lists. When it's not palm, they put the full name.




palm oil is only 9% polyunsaturated, as opposed to something like canola which is 20%.


I had never heard of canola oil.

The ratio is ~1/2, which is pretty good to know.


> I had never heard of canola oil.

It is called different things in different places. Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed. Canola actually stands for "Canada Oil" and the term probably isn't well known out of North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed


South America, canola oil is pretty well known




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