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I don't get why fried foods are still demonized. If you use, say coconut oil or avocado oil and stay under the smoke points (so the oils dont break down), what
by jeffy 10y ago
I don't get why fried foods are still demonized. If you use, say coconut oil or avocado oil and stay under the smoke points (so the oils dont break down), what's the problem?
Maybe there's an assumption that this means commercially prepared fried foods, which may use soybean oils that aren't cleaned/changed regularly?
- kbutler 10y agoIt's mostly the anti-fat bias, with some justifiable concern about high calorie content, as frying adds a possibly huge number of calories, mostly as fat (and breading!). http://www.livestrong.com/article/504208-how-many-calories-does-frying-add/ http://www.livestrong.com/article/504208-how-many-calories-d...
- theorique 10y agoMaybe there's an assumption that this means commercially prepared fried foods, which may use soybean oils that aren't cleaned/changed regularly? Makes sense. I'm not sure if you were implying this, but both ends[1] of the diet spectrum seem to decry "industrial" fry oils which are hydrogenated and thus full of the undesirable trans fatty acids. Even if they were cleaned or changed regularly, they would still contain those undesirable components. [1] By both ends, I mean the low-fat, vegetarian-style end (Ornish, etc) as well as the high-protein, high-fat style (Atkins, Mediterranean, Paleo, etc).