Best cooking oil,Healthy Cooking Oils, Olive Oil

Based on the above, the following may be recommended with regard to the best cooking oil:

For deep frying foods: The best oils are those with a high smoke point such as canola oil, corn oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil. The smoke point of unrefined oil is lower than the values mentioned in the above table.

For stir-frying and salad dressing: any oil low in saturated fat like canola oil, corn oil, or flax seed oil, olive oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil and walnut oil.

Oils to avoid: coconut oil, palm oil, butter, hard margarine.

There are conflicting reports about the health benefits or risks of coconut oil.

Storing of Virgin Olive Oil & Benefits

The extra-virgin olive oil may be beneficial in preventing conditions related to coronary disease, stroke and certain types of cancers.
A study by researcher Antonella Baiano of the University of Foggia in Italy and published in the Journal of Food Science, (March 2009) has revealed that after 3 months of storage, the antioxidant activity in the oil remained unchanged, but antioxidants decreased by about 40% after six months.
The study recommends consumers to store extra virgin olive oil in small glass bottles (one liter maximum because the oxygen contained in the headspace determines its oxidation), in a dark location, at a temperature lower than 20-250C (68-770F).

Misinformation on Canola Oil

Some of the information on the Internet states on canola oil is that it causes many diseases like joint pain, gum disease, constipation, heart disease, hearing loss, etc. Whereas the truth is that canola oil contains essential fatty acids that our body cannot make on its own. The long chain unsaturated fat in canola oil has been proven beneficial to our health.

Canola oil is Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed (LEAR) oil which contains less than 1 percent erucic acid. It was developed in Canada during the late 1960s - 1970s using hybrid propagation techniques involving black mustard, leaf mustard, and turnip rapeseed plants.

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