True or False: The 2025-2030 guidelines recommend cooking with olive oil, butter, or beef tallow, and describe these as equally healthy options.

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False. The guidelines state to "prioritize oils with essential fatty acids, such as olive oil" when cooking with or adding fats, while listing "butter or beef tallow" as "other options." Olive oil contains significantly less saturated fat than butter (1g per tablespoon in canola oil vs. 7g in butter and 6.4g in beef tallow). The wording creates an equivalence that nutritionally doesn't exist—beef tallow and butter are nearly pure saturated fat, which the same guidelines say should stay below 10% of daily calories.

True or False: The 2025-2030 guidelines recommend cooking with olive oil, butter, or beef tallow, and describe these as equally healthy options.

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