Wednesday 12 December 2018

These cooking oils could be harmful to your health

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It is better to keep away from  oils  like sunflower,soy,corn,rice bran as  they all had mostly Omega 6 fatty acids and no Omega 3., which could cause inflammation.


Some of the other  types of oils that one can avoid are:
1. Hydrogenated vegetable fat known as vanaspati in India
It is a vegetable oil that has undergone the process of  ‘Hydrogenation’, i.e. where the oil is treated with hydrogen under high temperature and pressure, the output of which is something like  butter  that is spreadable.  It creates considerable amount of 'trans fats', which can damage the healthy functioning of  hearts.

2. Palmolein oil
Even though 'Palm oil' in it's pure from is a good fat like coconut oil,  it's negativity to the health starts when consumed in a refined, bleached and deodorized form.  The trouble is 'palm oil'  is rampantly used in bakeries and restaurants as they top  the old batch with new one and continue to  do so with old palmolein in their frying pans.   
3.  Refined vegetable oils

Vegetable oils are extracted using predominantly a solvent,  hexane, a chemical used in solvent extraction of seed oils Hexane makes the oil extraction easy and fast  as it is not an ingredient but a processing agent,only.  Oil companies  are not mandated  to mention the residual hexane in their products.Even FDA is no exception to this. 
Acknowledgement with thanks: 
The source for this writ up is Anilitty A.S., MSc Wildlife Science, Wildlife Institute of India (2013)and it appeared in quora.com .

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