Buy prepackaged cooking oil with an SC number, and don't buy loose home-pressed peanut oil from small workshops
- High value
- Evidence B
- Buys life
- Free
- Takes minutes
- No willpower
In plain words
Peanuts that get damp and moldy grow aflatoxin, a clearly established carcinogen that mainly harms the liver. After Guangzhou brought small workshops under control, residents who regularly used home-pressed oil had about a third fewer abnormal liver function results. In Guangxi, pregnant women who ate home-pressed peanut oil had about a 90% higher risk of a low-birth-weight baby and about an 80% higher risk of preterm birth.
Translated from the Chinese original. Original book, section 2, tip 40. This section is about health and medicines. It is general information, not a substitute for a doctor’s diagnosis or prescription. Content may be out of date and rules differ by place. When you actually deal with an agency, a doctor or a court, follow what local officials, doctors and lawyers tell you. Disclaimer