Vitamin E in your Fish Oil
- required by American law
- California directive 65
Vitamin E in common oils
- Animal oils are naturally low
- Mustard seed oil is low
Low Vitamin E in Lard, mustard seed oil.
Main food sources of vitamin E in our diet:
- olive oil - Reduce
- sunflower oil - Avoid
| Vitamin E in: | 1 Tbsp | 100 g | 1 cup | |
| Lard | 7 mg | 1 g | 2 g | |
| Mustard | 14 mg | 2 g | 4 g | |
| Olive | 107 mg | 13 g | 30 g | |
| Corn | 707 mg | 55 g | 130 g | |
| Soy been | 854 mg | 61 g | 145 g | |
| Canola | 896 mg | 64 g | 152 g | |
| Sunflower | 924 mg | 66 g | 156 g |
Animal oils have little Vitamin E
Further reading:
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You can Google: "vitamin E shortens life span"
- example:
High-Dose Vitamin E May Shorten Life Span
High Doses Increase Risk of Death From All Causes
Daily doses of 400 IU or more -- actually increases the risk of dying
Johns Hopkins University researcher Edgar R. Miller III, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine, tells WebMD that when he combined 19 vitamin E studies that looked at almost 136,000 patients, "it was clear that as the vitamin E dose increased, so does all-cause mortality."
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References for numbers in table
- US cup 240mls
- metric cup 250mls.
- Lard, 237 g / cup
- Olive oil, 237 grams / cup
- Mustard Seed, 230 grams / cup
- USDA vegetable oils
- a-tocopherol
- y-tocopherol
- o-tocopherol