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Realfoodology

The Perfect Oil: Tallow + Why Seed Oils Should Not Be Consumed | Steven Arena of Masa Chips

Realfoodology

Courtney Swan

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

149: Today's guest is Steven Arena, Co-founder of Masa Chips. If you are not familiar with Masa Chips, they are tortilla chips made with a few simple ingredients; organic corn, grass fed beef tallow and salt. Steven joins me to talk about tallow, PUFA's, the food industry, avocado oil and so much more. If you want to try Masa Chips, you can use code REALFOODOLOGY for a discount here. Topics Covered: Avocado oil and how it's mostly fake + can you find a REAL avocado oil? Why beef tallow is the best oil to fry in Cassava and blood glucose levels Saturated fat Processed foods Lactose intolerance How corn has been bred to be more digestible The ultimate chip! How your body processes seed oils Seed oil + carb combo Why are seed oils so bad? Types of seed oils Canola oil PUFA's Sunscreen and how to tan properly Red light therapy Best clothing to wear to avoid micropastics Check Out Steven and Masa Chips: https://www.masachips.com/ Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you a discount! Sponsored By: Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic seed.com/realfoodology Use code REALFOODOLOGY for 30% off your first month's supply of Seed's DS-01® Daily Synbiotic Organifi www.organifi.com/realfoodology Code REALFOODOLOGY gets you 20% Off Check Out Courtney: Courtney's Instagram: @realfoodology www.realfoodology.com My Immune Supplement by 2x4 Air Dr Air Purifier AquaTru Water Filter EWG Tap Water Database

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0:00.0

On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast. What you have to do to an almond to make a cookie that like even resembles half of like an actual cookie made with like real flour, you know?

0:10.4

So you just swapped out one version of processed foods for another version of processed foods that taste way worse.

0:14.9

When we could have just fixed the quality of the original foods, got them back to how they were before the sort of green revolution, all the agriculture chemicals. And then it would be delicious and it would be healthy.

0:24.0

And that's what traditional food is. That's why it's so amazing.

0:28.6

Hi, friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Swan.

0:34.0

Today's episode is a really, really fascinating one. It was really fun for me to record

0:38.2

because my guest, Stephen and I, we have very similar philosophies when it comes to our diets.

0:44.8

And he also explains a lot of these modern issues that we're dealing with right now with health

0:52.8

in a very relatable way. He really

0:56.1

makes it makes sense. He is the founder of Masa chips, which you guys will learn more about in the

1:02.3

episode, but basically he created these tortilla chips just out of organic corn, grass-fed beef tallow,

1:08.7

and salt. And let me tell you guys, these chips are incredible.

1:13.2

I'm going to eat one.

1:13.8

I'm going to give you guys a little chip ASMR.

1:15.6

Just so you can hear the crunch.

1:20.8

Oh my God.

1:26.3

This is how chips are supposed to be.'re crunchy they don't disintegrate when you dip them into guac

1:33.0

or whatever dips you want to be eating them with and they actually really taste good unlike a lot of

1:38.9

these other alternative foods and we talk about that so we get into swapping out more traditional foods for these like

1:46.3

quote unquote healthier, more processed foods. We dive into that. We talk about seed oils and why he

1:53.1

uses beef tallow instead of seed oils like most other tortilla chips, like pretty much every tortilla

1:59.3

chip on the shelf. besides his are made with

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