Switching from oat milk to cows milk flat whites

I really enjoyed my oat milk latte but I was realising my covid cough came back every time I enjoyed my flat white and decided to investigate.

I started investigating and came across these facts from Jeff Nobbs's website https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/is-oatly-healthy

My main concern was the up to 2% of the transfat that is in the inflammatory rapeseed oil that is added to oat milk. That might be the cause of my irritating cough.

Transfat has no safe consumption level and is banned in the USA. I am no scientist or doctor and please don’t take my word as medical advice. I'm just starting a conversation and only experimenting with myself. A fun fact is that an oat Latte has more of that bad fat than a Mcdonald's small fries (read the article above).

I don’t want to scare anybody but knowledge is power. Here we are trying to do the best thing for our health, body, and environment but some of the facts are not general knowledge to everyone.

Seed oils are:

• Canola (rapeseed) oil

• Corn oil

• Cottonseed oil

• Grapeseed oil

• Peanut oil

• Rice bran oil

• Safflower oil

• Soybean oil

• Sunflower oil

Seed oils mostly contain omega 6 Polyunsaturated fatty acid called linoleic acid which is highly inflammatory when oxidise or treated with heat and linked to chronic diseases.

That made me look at all the labels and it is staggering how many foods have these oils in them. If you go to restaurants you are guaranteed they cook with it.

So my aim is to minimize consumption to minimize the inflammation in my body and minimize my risk of chronic diseases.

Below are 2 examples of different mayonnaise one contains sunflower oil and one contains olive oil. Olive oil has a very low amount of omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (linoleic acid) 12% compared to sunflower oil which which contains 71%. Avocado oil is also a healthier alternative. I prefer products with olive oil in them but can be more pricey.