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A packaged snack is paleo if every line on the ingredient list comes from a food group the diet allows: meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, and the fats pressed from them. It stops being paleo the moment the list contains a grain, a legume, dairy, refined sugar, or, for a large share of paleo shoppers, a refined seed oil. That one filter clears most of the snack aisle. Chips are corn or potato. Crackers are wheat or rice flour. Bars are often bound with soy protein, whey or oats. Trail mix often leads with peanuts, which are a legume. What survives is a shorter list than the shelf suggests, and it is a real one: meat snacks, nuts...

Avocado oil shows up on more snack packaging every year. This guide covers what avocado oil is, which snack categories use it, how to read an oil label so you know what you are actually buying, and where AshaPops fits. It compares categories rather than naming brands. The short version on AshaPops, stated plainly: depending on the flavor, AshaPops products use extra virgin olive oil or avocado oil. The brand does not use canola, sunflower, or other seed oils. What Avocado Oil Is Avocado oil is pressed from the flesh of the avocado, which makes it a fruit oil rather than a seed oil. It is roughly 71% monounsaturated fat (oleic acid), the same type of fat that predominates in...