为什么你应该停止在食物中加入植物精油
Hello! Please stop cooking with essential oils. Yes, normally writers bury the lede in a flurry of clickbait, but this is too important, so let's get to it: Essential oils are pricey, can be dangerous, and are easy to over do without proper instruction. You know what else is expensive? The degree you need to fully understand the dosage, interactions, and potential issues that could arise from improperly dosing your dinner guests. You know what's not expensive? Dried spices. Now I can continue to inform the rest of you why adding drops of medicinal-grade oils to your pasta sauce is just not a great idea. Essential oils used to be relegated to the medicine cabinet. This made sense, as they're basically "plant concentrate", and, before the discovery of antibiotics and development of vaccinations, we used to depend on plants and other (yes) natural things to cure our ailments. I'm not opposed to trying alternative medicines, I'm confident a few drops of basil oil on a cotton ball sitting outside the ear canal wouldn't cause infections. As the comedian Tim Minchin once said, "You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proven to work? Medicine." If that quote offends you, let's try one at the bottom of every page of essential-oil maker do TERRA's catalogue: "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." When it was just being used to treat various conditions, I said nothing as I watched oily mamas push their wares on new moms whose kids suffered from the pains of teething, earaches, and sleepless nights. That's not true, actually. I tactfully advised the moms rubbing peppermint oil on newborn infant feet that they should definitely run that ish by their doctor. After all, one square inch on my infant's foot is equal to about 10 inches of skin around mine. Plus, infant skin is super porous. But essential oils are safe, you say. They're natural, you say. Well, "natural" is a nice buzzword that means basically nothing on packaged materials. You know what else is natural? Anthrax. Arsenic. Asbestos. |