There's a potential loophole in the UC Davis avocado oil study that nobody's talking about. I know a lot of you have been asking why I haven't posted a video on this yet like everyone else. Here's why: I've seen way too much fake news and fearmongering the last couple years, and so much of it goes after "better for you" brands and turns out to be completely false. So before jumping on the bandwagon, I wanted to actually do research and talk to brands directly. Here's what I found: the study uses a newly-formed standard (Codex) to determine purity. But Codex only applies to certain avocado species. If a brand's oil comes from avocados outside that narrow genetic window, it automatically "fails." Even if it's 100% real, pure avocado oil. The test can't tell you what it's supposedly cut with. Only that it doesn't match their criteria. Case in point: Primal Kitchen uses Codex-compliant oil for their cooking oil, but a different (fully traced, Eurofin certified 100% real) avocado variety fo...
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