Tips in Selecting Healthy Cooking Oil

As a consumer, how should we choose a healthy cooking oil? 

The biggest concern now is, most oil are high in Omega 6, causing inflammation. Which leads to most diseases

So How to choose a healthy cooking oil? 

Main Criteria to look at

1. Omega 6: Omega 3 ratio

2. Smoke Point

What are some misconception that we need to take note for selecting a healthy cooking oil?

Let's listen from Dr Chen in her sharing

I have made a summaries on misconception from her sharing, you can look at the snapshot here. You can listen to the video to understand more!

1. Some oil are being labelled that it has went through refinery process to increase the smoke point

Is it really true? 

2. Can we reuse the cooking oil? 

Most food that we are taking outside are mostly cooked with re-used cooking oil to save cost. 

3. When you are deep frying chicken with cooking oil at home, you see bubble in the oil after a while. 

Why the cooking oil in fast food chain never get bubbled although they deep frying food all day long? 

4. Why the chicken/food that you fried at home turned brown very soon, yet the french fries/chicken at restaurant never get golden brown when leaving there? 

Sodium acid pyrophosphate is being added

5. Will oil spoil? Especially when we fried chicken (any meat)

6. Why the fast food oil can be used for more than few days to 1 week and the oil never spoilt? 

This preservatives is being added, a component in the lighter!!

Side effects of TBHQ?

Although the amount is lesser than the regulated amount. However, because of the re-using of the oil, it gets concentrated. 

Additional tip to Choosing cooking oil

What about Coconut oil? 

Let's look at the Straits Times article published earlier. 

http://immunesuperfood.blogspot.sg/2016/10/coconut-oil-is-not-superfood-you-think.html

The best oil in the market is made from Macademia, and Perilla with the criteria on smoke point and omega ratio. 

For me I choose the E.Excel Blended cooking oil, with the mix of Macademia and Perilla seed for best convenience, with no preservatives and chemically added. 

Irregardless of which oil, as long as they are oil they are high in calorie. Any teaspoon of any types of oil contains 120 calorie!

Check out more about the promotion on the cooking oil 

Always be a wiser consumer

You are what you eat

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064

The Health Advocates

Dr Chen was being featured in Business Time, CEO Conversation 

"As Dr Chen explains, the company's health food products are made from wholesome plant foods readily available in the supermarket. "What we provide is convenience for people too busy to prepare a wide variety of fruits and vegetables daily," she says.

"E. Excel's nutritional immunology advocates prevention over cure. By improving our diet with a wide variety of health-boosting fruits and vegetables found in the supermarket, and adopting a healthy lifestyle, we can strengthen our immune system and reduce the risk of disease," Dr Chen says."

But the initial going was tough. At that time, people were more receptive towards man-made supplements instead of natural foods. "People wanted secret, ancient formulas. And they thought anything chemical was better, preferring to take a vitamin C pill instead of eating an orange."

Not giving in to popular sentiment, she stuck to her original philosophy that whole foods are the way to go. "We know whole foods are good for people, and that gave us the strength to continue," she says.

Read up more in depth in the Business Time

I am glad to partner with Dr Chen, a leader who always do the right things, than doing things right. 

Always be a wiser consumer

You are what you eat

To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear

Siew Choon

Nutritional Immunology Lifestyle Coach

90263064