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Stay away from these Oils
I talked about some of my favorite cooking oils in this post, but what about the oils I didn’t include in my list?
29. Canola oil
An article by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD explains that canola oil goes through a refining process that involves high temperatures and ‘questionable safety’.
While canola oil has tons of omega-3 fatty acids, the high temperatures make these smell bad in the oil so the oil has to be deodorized. “The standard deodorization process removes a large portion of the omega-3 fatty acids by turning them into trans fatty acids…[R]esearch at the University of Florida at Gainesville, found trans levels as high as 4.6 percent in commercial liquid oil”.
And guess what? These trans fatty acids are not listed on the canola nutrition label.
30. Palm oil
You may not be cooking with palm oil, but I keep seeing it listed in ingredients of food items like cereal, peanut butter, soy milk, and other processed food.
The palm oil industry has been expanding ever since we started our campaign against trans fats. Since trans fats raise bad cholesterol levels and lower good cholesterol levels, it’s no wonder companies have been forced to get rid of them by replacing them with palm oil.
But a study shared with the National Center for Biotechnology Information states that: “Palm oil consumption results in higher LDL cholesterol than…vegetable oils low in saturated fat and higher HDL cholesterol”.
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