Cooking oil is used for frying or stir-frying meat, vegetable, and also used for baking. However cooking oil is ingredient that has to be reduced or even avoided for patients particularly with high cholesterol. It is certainly a selling point for oil producers to promote various kinds of edible oil such as Palm Oil, Corn Oil, Vegetable Oil, Sunflower Oil, Canola Oil with lower cholesterol.
Is it true there is an oil that lowers cholesterol levels?
Cholesterol is actually only found in oil originated from animal, while vegetable oil such as oil that derived from palm oil namely phytosterol. In point of fact, Palm oil, which is touted as cooking oil comprises higher cholesterol than other types of oil, contains a little or almost no cholesterol at all.
Palm oil is quite healthy because it produces saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids with relatively equal proportions. The difference with corn oil and soybean oil are the two types of oil own unsaturated fatty acid proportions higher than palm oil.
Some experts claim that unsaturated fatty acids are healthier than saturated fatty acids. But the truth is actually a balanced ratio between saturated with unsaturated. Because these two types of fats are required by our bodies. If we consume either one too much is certainly unhealthy, especially saturated fat and many are derived from animal fat.
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