Roberta wrote: >I looked up soy oil in my TCM reference. It is listed as slightly >toxic. That means you should not use it as the base for a salad >dressing. Small amounts ingested with soybean products is fine, but to >extract it and consume it is not a good idea. Hi Roberta, This also confirms the advice of Erasmus and Finnegan. Soy oil is extracted at a very high heat due to the nature of soy beans, so it is impossible to get tru cold-pressed soy oils. Hence it is toxic! Janis