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cooking oil
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can anyone tell me which is better for you?
corn oil
olive oil
sunflower oil
vegetable oil
Thanks all you AB members!
corn oil
olive oil
sunflower oil
vegetable oil
Thanks all you AB members!
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If its the highest amount of omega 3 for example you have to ditch the foreign olive oil and use UK produceed cold pressed rape seed such as Oleifera.
Buy online here: http://www.borderfields.co.uk/oleifera/index.p hp
Considerably higher Omega content in rape seed oil plus it has a much lower saturated fat content too - olive oil will be about 14% or so, but even sunflower oil is about 10%. The rape seed about 6%.
Sunflower oil is better for frying and could be used as well for a carrier oil for salad dressings as it has a very neutral flavour that won't interfere with the rest of the dressing.
Use a mustard oil for curries - and pumpkin seed oil is great in baking or for a flavour for a dressing too.
Hemp, flax seed, saff flower and linseed oil are actualy the best for omega content I believe and as they are a vegetable source for it it is easily digested, is sustainable and you can also find organic varities too if you fancy.
Hope this adds too..
If its the highest amount of omega 3 for example you have to ditch the foreign olive oil and use UK produceed cold pressed rape seed such as Oleifera.
Buy online here: http://www.borderfields.co.uk/oleifera/index.p hp
Considerably higher Omega content in rape seed oil plus it has a much lower saturated fat content too - olive oil will be about 14% or so, but even sunflower oil is about 10%. The rape seed about 6%.
Sunflower oil is better for frying and could be used as well for a carrier oil for salad dressings as it has a very neutral flavour that won't interfere with the rest of the dressing.
Use a mustard oil for curries - and pumpkin seed oil is great in baking or for a flavour for a dressing too.
Hemp, flax seed, saff flower and linseed oil are actualy the best for omega content I believe and as they are a vegetable source for it it is easily digested, is sustainable and you can also find organic varities too if you fancy.
Hope this adds too..
I have just looked on the rapeseed bottle and it gives saturated fat as 1Gram.
I cannot find any other oil with such a low rating.
I use it for chips but olive oil for salads etc. as the rapeseed oil is a bit bland.
The only trouble with sunflower oil is that if you use it for chips over and over again it does form harmfull trans fats.
So only use it five or six times.
rodz
I cannot find any other oil with such a low rating.
I use it for chips but olive oil for salads etc. as the rapeseed oil is a bit bland.
The only trouble with sunflower oil is that if you use it for chips over and over again it does form harmfull trans fats.
So only use it five or six times.
rodz
Brown flax is the furniture oil - but it can also be 'eaten' just as the other which is known as yellow flax.
Linseed is the other name for flax but I always use both names when nagging people bout he benefits of some oils in case they only know of the one name for the product ( I regularly berate shoppers at farmers' markets I attend - lately its been about good for you oils, recently its that ASDA flog you a frozen cheesecake with 68 ingredients, and so on...)
Quite right to change oils after 6 burns or so. Some of the extended life oils only have extra life as they have added vitamin E, but sunflower has this as a natural component. Even so, best to only use for specific time.
You can of course improve it by filtering when cold after a fry - its what tights were invented for.....
If you fancy getting a bit of other info about healthy oils have a look at : http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php
All oils have a flash point some higher than others so are better for frying and they can also deteriorate on heating - and go rancid. There are a load of resources on the web that might advise or if you want a list of oils one starting point is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetable _oils and follow the links.
Hope this helps..
Linseed is the other name for flax but I always use both names when nagging people bout he benefits of some oils in case they only know of the one name for the product ( I regularly berate shoppers at farmers' markets I attend - lately its been about good for you oils, recently its that ASDA flog you a frozen cheesecake with 68 ingredients, and so on...)
Quite right to change oils after 6 burns or so. Some of the extended life oils only have extra life as they have added vitamin E, but sunflower has this as a natural component. Even so, best to only use for specific time.
You can of course improve it by filtering when cold after a fry - its what tights were invented for.....
If you fancy getting a bit of other info about healthy oils have a look at : http://whfoods.org/foodstoc.php
All oils have a flash point some higher than others so are better for frying and they can also deteriorate on heating - and go rancid. There are a load of resources on the web that might advise or if you want a list of oils one starting point is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vegetable _oils and follow the links.
Hope this helps..