The “Super Seed Oils” That will Change Your Life

by Brian Shilhavy
Health Impact News

The term “seed oils” in recent times has become a negative term in the natural/organic food industry.

The term appears to have originated in 2018, and then became popular in 2020 after a Joe Rogan program with Paul Saladino. (Source.)

This term became even more popular last year, in 2025, when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy made it a part of his “Make America Healthy Again” slogan.

Until recently, most Americans had never heard the term “seed oils,” even though they’ve likely cooked with and consumed them for decades.

It’s the catchy description coined by internet influencers, wellness gurus, and some politicians to refer to common cooking oils — think canola, soybean, and corn oil — that have long been staples in many home kitchens.

Those fiery critics refer to the top refined vegetable oils as “the hateful eight” and claim that they’re fueling inflammation and high rates of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, has said Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and has called for fast-food restaurants to return to using beef tallow, or rendered animal fat, in their fryers instead.

What Are Seed Oils?

Simply put, they are oils extracted from plant seeds. They include eight commonly targeted by critics: canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, and rice bran. (Source.)

I totally agree with their “eight commonly targeted” seed oils of “canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, and rice bran” as being highly toxic, and unhealthy.

These polyunsatured oils have only been in the human food chain for a short time, since World War II when we developed expeller-pressed technology to extract oils from crops we never did before that time. They are not shelf stable, and need to be highly processed to make them so, which creates many health problems.

However, to state that these toxic oils should only be replaced with animal fats, such as beef tallow, is very short-sighted, because there are many seed oils that have been used to extract edible oils and that have nourished populations for thousands of years, which I will highlight in the rest of this article.

And while animal fats such as tallow and lard have also been used for thousands of years to nourish populations, the quality of those fats has to be considered based on how the animals have been raised.

If those fats are extracted from animals that are raised on CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), where the animals never graze on grass and only eat animal feed derived from the very same seeds that make up the “seed oils” in the “dirty eight” that are condemned and are primarily GMOs full of herbicides and pesticides (corn and soy are the main ingredients in most cattle feeds), how healthy is the fat from these animals?

A far better alternative to animal fats from the American agricultural system are the “super seed” oils, which are not only safer and have nourished populations for thousands of years, they also contribute to your health and help your immune system fight diseases, proving what the father of the Hippocratic Oath once said: “Let food be your medicine.”

The Super Seed Oils

Coconut Oil

Coconuts are seeds. Coconut trees grow from coconuts that are planted into the ground.

I have spent almost 30 years educating the public on the health benefits of coconut oil, after having lived in the Philippines for many years. I own the website CoconutOil.com, where you can review all the peer-reviewed research showing just how healthy coconut oil is.

When we came into the market in 2002 with the first “virgin coconut oil” imported into the U.S. from the Philippines, there was not a single grocery in the U.S. that sold coconut oil, because the U.S. Government for years, even up through today, lies to the American people and tells them that coconut oil is bad for them.

I decided to tell Americans the truth through the new communication medium called the “Internet” at that time, and today you can walk into any grocery store chain and buy coconut oil.

You’re welcome America. I paid a high price to bring that truth to you, and it almost cost me my life.

Black Cumin Seed Oil

The Muslim prophet is quoted as saying that Black Seeds and the oil from them are the “cure for everything except death“. It is not a dietary oil that is well-known in the U.S., but it is in the Middle East, and I sell it in my store, sourced from Turkey, a country I lived in for many years of my young adult life.

A search for “Black Seed Oil” on Health Impact News will turn up over 60 articles of research on the health benefits of this “seed oil.”

Virgin Palm Oil

Virgin Palm Oil, also known as “Red Palm Oil”, comes from the palm nut which is also a seed that will grow into a palm tree if planted.

It probably has the highest concentration of antioxidants than any other plant oil, including the full range of carotenes (precursors to Vitamin A) and tocotrienols (Vitamin E).

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Palm oil is the most consumed dietary oil in the world, outside of the U.S., where soybean oil is #1, although most of the palm oil consumed is not red palm oil, but a refined version.

Palm oil has received bad press in modern times, due to the destruction of rain forests in Sumatra to plant palm fruit trees. But palm fruit trees are not native to Southeast Asia, where mainly only huge plantations grow that need a constant supply of herbicides and pesticides to continue growing.

It is native to the tropical places in Africa, where they still consume it in its natural, unprocessed red form. The taste is strong, and the red oil can stain fabric, so it is not very popular in the U.S., accept among African populations and those who feed exotic, tropical birds who love it.

Read the history of palm oil here.

We source our Virgin Palm Oil from Africa, so there is no destruction of rain forest habitats in its harvest and production.

Olive Oil

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Since olive oil is so well-known in a positive way in the U.S., the new “seed oil” bashers were forced to call olives a “fruit” to try and get around their condemnation of all seed oils in favor of animal fats.

But guess what happens when you plant an olive? It grows into an olive tree. That makes it a “seed” by my definition of “seeds”.

If you search in PubMed for “olive oil cancer” you will get over 1,400 results, and they are not all related to cancer, but also includes autism, muscle health, and many other diseases that olive oil can help fight.

It is truly a “super seed oil”, and if it is “extra virgin” olive oil, it is so rich in antioxidants that it is perfectly fine to fry with, combating a common myth among Americans that olive oil should never be used to fry food.

The problem with that myth is that the Italians have been doing it for thousands of years. See: