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.
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
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