Oils

Vow!we all love fried foods.

Talk about French fries,or onion rings or donuts or chips or stirfries.

Do you think everybody uses good healthy oils for this cooking?

Did you know if you deep fried some foods and there was oil left in your fry pan ,you should discard it.

Never reuse heated oil again and again in cooking.

The question comes as to which oil is good?

When I am in grocery store I have so many choices and so many brands and so many sizes, my tendency would be to buy the biggest bottle with the least price.After all oil is oil.

Well, I am wrong.It does matter what oil you use in cooking.

Let us see which are the best oils,

Extra virgin olive oil tops the list if you don't have to do extreme high temperature cooking.

My research shows that this Extravirgin olive oil is best quality if it has a sediment and greenish in appearance and is unfiltered.

Coconut oil has been used in India for a long time and health benefits are just surfacing now.It has the healthy medium chain triglycerides,MCT.

Red palm oil is healthy.

Ghee or clarified butter is healthy.

Avocado oil is healthy.

Sesame oil is healthy.

Certain oils are outright not good for you,specially unsafe for any heat exposure.

These are,

Corn oil

Soybean oil

Sunflower oil 

Safflower oil

Flax oil

Pumpkin seed oil.

Remember trans fats got so popular as they increased shelf life of products ,till their effects on heart health were uncovered.Remember those Twinkies or powdered donuts that could stay in our hand bags for days and still look and taste fresh.a These Transfats are banned now.

Remember there was a time when we were told,margarines were good for health.Margarines and Crisco shortening are hydrogenated and not healthy.