Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

The Hidden Ingredient Wrecking Your Health 😳 (It’s in Everything)

23 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this video Mona Sharma warns that refined seed oils—such as canola, soybean, sunflower, safflower, and corn oil—are ubiquitous in restaurant meals, processed foods, and especially children’s snacks. She explains that these oils are heavily processed, high in omega‑6 fatty acids, and prone to oxidation when heated, producing harmful compounds linked to chronic inflammation, heart disease, gut dysfunction, and cognitive decline. Because they are cheap and have a long shelf life, they dominate snack aisles, making it nearly impossible to find a kid‑snack brand without them. Sharma’s key recommendation is to replace these oils with healthier fats like olive oil, avocado oil, grass‑fed butter, or ghee, and to diligently read ingredient labels to avoid the hidden “tox seed oils.”

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Seed oils like canola, soybeans, sunflower, safflower and corn oil are everywhere, especially if you're eating out and especially in all of your processed foods. The problem is that these seed oils are highly refined. They are loaded with omega 6 fatty acids which in excess can create chronic inflammation in the body when they are heated or processed. They oxidize easily. They produce harmful compounds that are linked to heart disease, poison, poor gut health and even cognitive decline. And yet they persist in nearly every snack aisle because they're cheap to produce and they have a really, really long shelf life. The key takeaway is to swap these oils out for healthier fat options like olive oil, avocado oil, grass fed butter or ghee and really start to read your labels, especially on those kids snacks. I promise you if you go down a kid snack aisle, it is nearly impossible to find even one brand that isn't using these highly refined tox seed oils.