Be Well | What’s Really in Your Food? Inside Ocean City’s New Seed Oil Free Restaurant
A new seed-oil free restaurant is here
One Switch that Changed Everything for Me
In the summer of 2022, I was on antibiotics three times for multiple illnesses. Quite obviously there was a much bigger underlying issue that wasn’t being addressed. After all, this wasn’t flu season.
After feeling constantly let down and worried about my health, a client recommended a preventative medicine doctor. Within the first five minutes, he asked about my seed oil intake.
If you’re thinking, “WTF is a seed oil?” You’re not alone…
The most common seed oils include soybean, canola (rapeseed), corn, sunflower, safflower, cottonseed, grapeseed, and rice bran oil. They’re inexpensive and have a long shelf life, making them ideal for large scale food manufacturing and restaurants.
Today, seed oils are in items from salad dressings and chips to bread and restaurant fryers, increasing our intake of omega 6 fatty acids. For some, seed oils can be digested without issue. But for some, like me, this isn’t the case.
After I removed them from my diet?
My painful cystic acne was gone, and after difficulty conceiving, I became pregnant with my daughter Quinn. I can’t say those outcomes were caused solely by eliminating seed oils, but the improvements were dramatic.
Today, as a working mom of two, I love to dine out in South Jersey. New on the scene here in OCNJ is Hearthly Burger, a restaurant committed to cooking without seed oils open in our area.
Hearthly Burger first opened in 2019 in Shrewsbury, NJ. They have a second in Sea Bright… and the OC Boardwalk is the third.
The menu is full of burgers, sandwiches, fries, cauliflower bites, and more bites perfect for beach day fuel.
The maple shroom burger has the hearthly custom beef blend, lettuce, tomato, onion, og sauce, swiss cheese, and maple syrup. The truffle?
That’s the same blend but with black truffle powder, white truffle aoili, and truffle oil.
If you’re seeking a different snack, there’s a slew of sandwiches too. The raging fried chicken sando has rage sauce, dill pickles, chives, house made ranch, and micro wasabi/radish. There are so many options, you can bring the whole crew up to the boards for a meal. Let me know what you think.
By Lauren Deckard, LMT, NASM-CPT
Owner of Peak Mobility