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by buckthundaz 1573 days ago
If you cook your own food, it is easy to avoid. Simply don't buy them. Use tallow, ghee, butter, coconut oilt.

Note that this simple method of making what you eat will mitigate exposure to endocrine disrupting plastics too.

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Coconut is a seed.
The coconut is surprisingly complicated, a seed and more.

Botanically speaking, a coconut is a fibrous one-seeded drupe, also known as a dry drupe. However, when using loose definitions, the coconut can be all three: a fruit, a nut, and a seed.

Full article is worth reading:

https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/is-a-coconut-a-f....

The botanical classification doesn’t matter - coconut oil is primarily saturated fat which is what makes it better for you over the PUFA that comes from seed oils.