which cooking oil is beneficial for health?
1. olive oil
2. corn oil
3. cocount oil
4. sunflower oil3...by far! so many great properties!
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Umm well monounsaturated fats are the best for you. Coconut oil is a saturated fat, not so good. Sunflower, olive, and corn are unsaturated. But it depends on what your purpose is. Also a lot of oils can break down into trans fats when exposed to high heat (cooking) so thats why olive and canola oil are good
I would say #1 because of the high levels of monounsaturated fat.
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No cooking is the best
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Misha wrote:
No cooking is the best
Misha, come on! What do you eat then, fast food? Very bad! Or do you eat everything raw?
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The only good oil is extra virgin olive oil, this is from the first pressing unlike all others that have been re-pressed afterward. Including pure... the last pressing.
Olive oil all the way.
It is not refined chemically.
Pressed, strained and bottled!Colebabie wrote:
Umm well monounsaturated fats are the best for you. Coconut oil is a saturated fat, not so good. Sunflower, olive, and corn are unsaturated. But it depends on what your purpose is.
I've read somewhere (of course, I know any information can be incorrect especially these days) BUT I've heard conflicting reports on saturated vs. unsaturated fats. Supposidly a lot of monounsaturated fats are feed to farm animals, such as pigs, which are used to 'fatten' them up...not saturated foods. Also, I would think with a balanced diet and moderate exercise should balance out the saturated fats found in coconut oil..of course, I'm no nutritionist...I'm just speculating here based on limited knowledge and my own "internet" research.
drej2522 wrote:
Colebabie wrote:
Umm well monounsaturated fats are the best for you. Coconut oil is a saturated fat, not so good. Sunflower, olive, and corn are unsaturated. But it depends on what your purpose is.
I've read somewhere (of course, I know any information can be incorrect especially these days) BUT I've heard conflicting reports on saturated vs. unsaturated fats. Supposidly a lot of monounsaturated fats are feed to farm animals, such as pigs, which are used to 'fatten' them up...not saturated foods. Also, I would think with a balanced diet and moderate exercise should balance out the saturated fats found in coconut oil..of course, I'm no nutritionist...I'm just speculating here based on limited knowledge and my own "internet" research.
Nice pumpkin
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Just stay away from margarine Pass The Butter . Please.
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings..
DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .
And now, for Margarine..
Very High in Trans fatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT
These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? wyanjen wrote:
drej2522 wrote:
Colebabie wrote:
Umm well monounsaturated fats are the best for you. Coconut oil is a saturated fat, not so good. Sunflower, olive, and corn are unsaturated. But it depends on what your purpose is.
I've read somewhere (of course, I know any information can be incorrect especially these days) BUT I've heard conflicting reports on saturated vs. unsaturated fats. Supposidly a lot of monounsaturated fats are feed to farm animals, such as pigs, which are used to 'fatten' them up...not saturated foods. Also, I would think with a balanced diet and moderate exercise should balance out the saturated fats found in coconut oil..of course, I'm no nutritionist...I'm just speculating here based on limited knowledge and my own "internet" research.
Nice pumpkin
Thanks, yours is better...ehh
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drej2522 wrote:
Colebabie wrote:
Umm well monounsaturated fats are the best for you. Coconut oil is a saturated fat, not so good. Sunflower, olive, and corn are unsaturated. But it depends on what your purpose is.
I've read somewhere (of course, I know any information can be incorrect especially these days) BUT I've heard conflicting reports on saturated vs. unsaturated fats. Supposidly a lot of monounsaturated fats are feed to farm animals, such as pigs, which are used to 'fatten' them up...not saturated foods. Also, I would think with a balanced diet and moderate exercise should balance out the saturated fats found in coconut oil..of course, I'm no nutritionist...I'm just speculating here based on limited knowledge and my own "internet" research.
Yeah dre you're totally right. As long as someone has a healthy diet and exercises coconut oil is perfectly ok, especially as a supplement. But for taste, availability, etc. I stick with olive oil
olive oil is tasty..
...and good for you too.
And, many American's make decisions based on convenience...Exercise is not convenient! So...olive oil is ultimately the 'safer' choice.Maybe the better question is which essential oils are best for health. Not all of them are suitable for cooking, but to be used in dressings etc. Pumpkin seed oil, hemp oil, flax seed oil etc have great health benefits. Just like coconut oil however, mainstream media, influenced by Western Medicine thinking, doesn't seem to know this.
Check Wilderness Family Naturals for all things coconut. I like their coconut oil soaps and deodorants, but buy my coconut oil for cooking locally.
http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/Misha wrote:
No cooking is the best
Yes, Misha , I hope you are not cooking for yourselves.
shriash wrote:
1. olive oil
2. corn oil
3. cocount oil
4. sunflower oil
The standard response to that is olive oil although I've never tried corn oil or coconut (corn should theoretically be quite a heavy oil for the heart, I think)
Personally I think all oil should be used in moderation if it's going to be healthy. Bon appetit!
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i think olive oil is better.
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vegetable oil
prettydarkhorse wrote:
vegetable oil
You added a cooking oil. That is made the competition tough.
rmcrayne wrote:
Maybe the better question is which essential oils are best for health. Not all of them are suitable for cooking, but to be used in dressings etc. Pumpkin seed oil, hemp oil, flax seed oil etc have great health benefits. Just like coconut oil however, mainstream media, influenced by Western Medicine thinking, doesn't seem to know this.
Check Wilderness Family Naturals for all things coconut. I like their coconut oil soaps and deodorants, but buy my coconut oil for cooking locally.
http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/Where u from?
