Is Mayonnaise Unhealthy?

There's been a stigma going around for years, decades, about just how unhealthy mayonnaise is. Everyone is convinced it will make you terribly fat, that it grows bacteria easily, and that it's a food no one should ever encounter, especially on a diet.

But, let's look at the ingredients before condemning this sauce for another decade. It's made with eggs, which have been known to be incredibly healthy. Both the white, which contains the amino acid albumin (known as one of the best proteins on earth), and the yolk (a great source of choline, usually associated with vitamin B complex), are main ingredients. Weird for such a terrible food.

Olive oil, soybean oil, and/or canola oil? Those are also healthy ingredients. All three are known are high levels of unsaturated fats (the good fat which is great as energy, easily absorbed, increases good cholesterol, and actually helps prevent heart attacks). These are other ingredients that we all know to be good.

How can such an awful sauce have such healthy ingredients? I can't understand it.

Wait, there's vinegar and lemon, along with salt. Well, too much salt isn't great, but vinegar and lemon have also been known a long time as healthy foods. Not to mention that they inhibit, or just flat out kill, any floating bacteria. That means that the "truth" about mayonnaise being so susceptible to bacteria from being left on the counter, or even out in the sun must be more a myth.

There has to be something bad here for so many people to hate mayonnaise, there just has to be.

Oh, there's high levels of fat! That must mean it's bad. But wait, didn't we just cover that the fats come from very healthy sources? Fat itself has had a long and arduous life, what with people saying that it adds to the fat on our bodies. Fat is just a fuel source that, when used properly, helps you actually burn body fat and lose weight.

There's a few carbs here, but no diet I know of says that a low level of carbs is bad for you.

Not to mention a good amount of vitamin E, which you don't find in everything, and it's naturally trans fat free (even before the banning craze!). That's really weird, where's the bad? The heart clogging, weight gaining, horribly unhealthy ingredients?

The truth is that mayonnaise isn't that bad for you. Of course, and you know where this is going, anything in excess is bad. But the stigma branded on mayonnaise's label should be lifted, as it isn't as bad as what the public would like to believe.

So spread it on sandwiches, make it into salad dressings, and let everyone know that mayonnaise isn't the killer everyone thought it was. Hey, given a chance, it may even be your friend.