Is Mayonnaise Healthy?

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Hello I'm Dr. Ekberg and we're going to talk about making mayonnaise. Why would

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you want to go through the trouble of making your mayonnaise? Well first of all

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it's not very hard. I have just made a video to show you how to do that, but

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most store-bought mayonnaise is terrible it is all made from soybean oil or

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canola. And the problem with mayonnaise is that it needs to be light in flavor.

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That's how people are used to it, and if you try to make it with olive oil like

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extra-virgin olive oil or healthy oil then the strong the flavor just becomes

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way way too strong most people can't tolerate that. And the store-bought

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mayonnaises are made with oil that has been bleached, and processed, and heated,

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and de-gummed, and deodorized, it's a dead, terrible, terrible oil. It's worse than

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than empty calories. So I have a compromise I use a slightly

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refined avocado oil. Costco has a great one. If you want to use extra virgin

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olive oil and you can tolerate that flavor that's probably even better. (Mayo) It's

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not something that you want to eat by the truckload anyway but once in a while

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if you want some mayonnaise make a good one. Again we want to mention about Omega-6s

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versus Omega-3s. Avocado oil is an omega-3 oil because it's mostly truly a

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vegetable derived oil. The store bought are made from grains and beans and they are

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omega sixes so in order to boost your omega threes you want to go through the

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trouble of making your own. There are some store-bought that are organic and

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egg free and all of that, and if you're allergic to eggs that might be

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something to look into. For the most part they're not necessarily any better

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because they're still based on canola oil and other seed oils and they also

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get very very expensive. So it only takes a couple of minutes

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to make a batch of mayonnaise. It keeps for a few weeks and it is delicious. Plus you

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know exactly what goes into it. So stay tuned, check out the recipe, there is a

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video on how to make it, comment below the video, subscribe, and stay tuned for

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more information and more recipes. Thank you.