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Can you expound on the plant based oil part?
by mauflows 6y ago
Can you expound on the plant based oil part?
- ip26 6y agoPlant based oils often have low oxidation temperatures, and oxidized oils are not particularly healthy. Saturated fats usually have higher oxidation temperatures making them more suited to high temperature cooking.
- fantod 6y agoWhat qualifies as plant-based? I always use peanut oil because I heard it has a high smoke point.
- ip26 6y agoPeanut oil is a pretty good choice for high heat pan frying. The makeup is really what matters- saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, etc. Although for what it’s worth my life got a lot better when I learned roasting, braising, simmering, reductions, etc and stopped trying to pan fry everything.
- majidazimi 6y agoEVOO, Ghee (from grass fed butter), Coconut oil, Avocado oil, Sesame oil, Tallow, Lard and Butter (from grass fed animal) is all that you should be eating. Everything else belongs to trash bin.
- bitkrieg 6y agoPolyunsaturated fats have many unstable double carbon bonds, so especially under heat a wide range of new fat compounds form which were never present in the human diet.
- erdewit 6y agoMost seed-based oils contain a lot of linoleic acid, for example sunflower oil has 65%. It is an essential fatty acid, but the average consumption nowadays is way too high. It oxidizes easily which leads to health problems when too much of it is incorporated into cell and mitochondrial membranes. Plant oils such as those from olive, coconut, palm, cocoa or avocado have much less linoleic acid.