Refined and seed oils

“Seed oils” here means common industrial fry and roasting fats — especially sunflower, rice bran, canola/rapeseed, soybean, cottonseed, and corn oil — plus catch-all “edible vegetable oil” and explicitly refined versions of even otherwise acceptable oils (for example refined groundnut when the pack does not show cold-pressed / kachchi ghani where we require it).

• Refined and commodity seed oils are the default for namkeen, chips, and sev; short clean labels usually name a traditional fat instead.
• Vague “vegetable oil” blocks verification — we cannot Keep what we cannot identify.
• Some brands market “natural” while the panel still lists sunflower or refined oil. That mismatch fails our transparency bar.

This is a catalog screen, not a claim that seed oils are uniquely toxic in every diet context.

• Locked snack oilsDeny: refined oils, sunflower, rice bran, canola, soy, cottonseed, corn, vegetable oil, palm as fry fat.
• Live pack-verify caveats:
• Nourish Organics Cinnamon Oats Granola — keep only if oil is allowlisted, not sunflower/refined
• Matratva Ratlami Sev — pack must show cold-pressed groundnut, not refined
• Induben Pure Ghee Plain Khakhra — confirm pure-ghee SKU (some lines use edible oil)
• Open policy note: olive-oil roasted makhana (Farmley, Tata Simply Better) is caveat-keep today — olive is not on the hard allowlist; Grove has not hardened it.

Allowlist oils: coconut, ghee, groundnut (prefer cold-pressed), mustard, sesame.

• Single-ingredient or short-list fats: 24 Mantra Organic Groundnut Oil, Anveshan Wood Cold-Pressed Groundnut Oil, Anveshan / Two Brothers ghee
• Oil-free roasted: Mother's Crunchy Foods Plain Roasted Makhana

We do not tell people to eliminate every seed oil from their kitchen. We do refuse to hero snacks that hide or default to denied fry fats. Full rules: The Standard — snacks.