Hexane is often brought up in discussions about refined vegetable oils, with claims that it’s “toxic” or “carcinogenic.” The reality looks very different when we examine the science. Hexane is a non-polar solvent widely used in oil extraction because it binds well to fats and recovers 98–99% of oil from seeds. It evaporates at just 69 °C when oil goes through refining, bleaching, and deodorization at very high temperatures. Inhaled hexane can be neurotoxic, not the trace amounts left after refin