There are many commercially produced foods containing cottonseed oil; from canned foods to chips and other packaged items. It is even added to beverages such as Gatorade. Cotton however, is not a food crop, and is therefore not treated with the care edible crops receive, but rather as an industrial one.
Just about anything can be sprayed onto cotton plants to ward off yield damaging insects and also to induce growth. Dangerous poisons such as cyanide, trifluralin, dicofol, naled, propargite and dicofol are regularly used on cotton crops. These work their way deep into the plant walls, literally changing them into deadly poison pods.
It may be okay for making shirts and pants, but cottonseed oil is truly not safe to consume. Added to this,
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The FDA however does not require an allergy label on the oil, even though consumption of peanut oil has lead to fatality.
These are safer alternatives to cottonseed and other industrial oils?
There are many commercially produced foods containing cottonseed oil; from canned foods to chips and other packaged items. It is even added to beverages such as Gatorade. Cotton however, is not a food crop, and is therefore not treated with the care edible crops receive, but rather as an industrial one.
Just about anything can be sprayed on cotton plants to ward off yield damaging insects and to induce growth. Dangerous poisons such as cyanide, trifluralin, dicofol, naled and propargite are regularly used on cotton crops. These work their way deep into the plants, literally transforming them into deadly poison pods.
It may be okay for making shirts and pants, but cottonseed oil is truly not safe to consume. Added to this, the majority of cotton plants are also genetically modified at the molecular level. So, even though we are not eating the cotton plant directly, the extracted oil is taken from the same cells as the