Selection Of Best Cooking Oil For Your Entire Family

SELECTION OF BEST COOKING OIL FOR YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY:

Every Indian family has their own body guard! Yes, your cooking oil is your best health guard! The oil can be used for your kitchen, can bring you a good health. So, we need to choose it wisely.

Before considering the choice of best cooking oil, we need to know some common science besides its chemistry .There  are four important components, which must be present at desirable ratio for our optimum diet. They are the PUFA (poly unsaturated fatty acids), MUFA (Mono unsaturated fatty acids), SFA (Saturated Fatty Acids), and other unsaturated fatty acids.SFA contents high amount of triglycerides which may increase the cholesterol level and can be able to block your arteries. Therefore oil less in SFA will be healthier to choose as cooking oil. PUFA and MUFA are good for its cardioprotective activities, as well as its role in brain development and maintenance.

Some good and bad things of cooking oils are as follows:

Rice-Bran Oil:

It is one such liquid, which is mainly obtained from the outer portion of rice grain. Rice bran oil is popular at Asia, Japan, and India as well. Rice –bran oil has so many medicinal values. The presence of tocotrienols (TRF) used to reduce the cholesterol level in blood. Also, this oil is rich with Vitamin-E (tocopherol), which also act as an important antioxidant.

But the desired ratio of PUFA and MUFA is not ideal. There are virtually no Omega-3 Fatty acids, but it is rich with Omega-6 Fatty acids. Supplementation with other oils my help to solve this problem.

Mustard oil:

Plant source is Mustard seeds. It is one of the most popular cooking oil in India. Different antioxidants and vitamins are present in this oil. Mustard oil is heart healthy, improves digestion, appetite. It also fights to prevent the growth of bacteria, fungi, and viruses.

But the desired ratio of PUFA and MUFA are not identical, therefore without proper supplementations.

Sunflower oil:

Sunflower oil is high in omega-6 fatty acid content where as ,omega-3 fatty acids (the anti-inflammatory fatty acid) are less in amount. On the other hand ,this oil consumption promotes a negative effect on insulin and white blood cell levels. This oil is not rich with antioxidant like mustard oil.

Canola oil:

Sautéing, frying, grilling are some cooking methods, where usage of canola oil is ideal, as it has very high smoke point of 242 degrees Celsius. It is also rich with some good unsaturated fat like Omega 3, 6 and Omega 9 fatty acids. They mainly help to maintain a healthy heart, and not only that it also contain 7 % saturated fat, which is relatively less than other cooking oil.

Olive Oil

It is one of the most versatile oil, as it functions as food, beauty aid, and also as a home remedy. It is mostly popular in the western country, but the still Indians are also including it as cooking oil recently. It is useful because of its antioxidant contents; it is also helpful in lowering cardiovascular risks, as research says olive oil aids in lowering the LDL or “bad” cholesterol. Research says that olive oil also helps to protect cancer. Not only for cooking, olive oil is also very useful for hair and skin treatments.

Different health and cooking factors like smoke point, heating temperature, the ratio of omega 3 fatty acids ,saturated fat ratio etc are responsible for choosing the best-suited cooking oil.  Nowadays, so many options are available to choose cooking oil, but choose wisely and stay protected.