Vegetable oil, its types, what oil is better for food and diets

In the world around us is nothing only good or only bad. Nutritionists agree that the ideal vegetable oil simply does not exist. Each oil is somehow better than others, so to "get the most out" will have to use several types.

By composition of fats and acids, the most balanced oil - canola, popular in northern Europe. In trade, it can be found under the "name" canola oils. In the rapeseed oil is almost the same amount of oleic acid in olive oil, the quantity of linoleic acid rapeseed "catching up" sunflower.

For the "core", controlling blood cholesterol levels, it is important that the composition of rapeseed oil to 15% alpha-linolenic acid family of omega-3. Superiority of the content of Omega-3 with the result of 67% of the world table of ranks firmly holds domestic product - linseed oil.

With the most balanced composition, rapeseed oil has some drawbacks. It quickly deteriorates, as manifested in the appearance of specific rancidity. So buy rapeseed oil for future use - a bad idea. It is sometimes said that the rapeseed oil gives fish. This, in principle, a harmless nuisance may occur, not in all classes, with heating oil above 180 degrees.

Olive oil attracts cardiac patients for another reason - the presence of squalene, improves cardio - vascular system. It is important to remember that squalene is present only in olive oil, have not undergone heat treatment. In other words - fill salad with olive oil varieties of extra virgin first extraction is useful, but fry eggs on it, probably not worth it. Moreover, the temperature and smoke formation in butter is not the best, just 191 degrees Celsius.

In addition to olive oil and shark liver oil squalene contains amaranth oil, known in Europe from the XVI century, forgotten for several centuries, and again attracted the attention of scientists in our day.

Modern food processing firm "sat down" on palm oil. Its advantages - high density (almost like butter) and the lack of trans-isomers of fatty acids. An important factor - the low cost of the product of oil palm. In food, palm oil is quite suitable, but do not possess any outstanding qualities or harmful, nor useful. Overall - a solid technology.

From a simple markedly different red palm oil extracted from fruit special kind of oil palm. The red palm oil set of biologically active substances, for example, up to 500 milligrams of beta carotene and up to 800 milligrams of tocopherol per kilogram of product. In Russia, red palm oil can be found in the pharmacy.

Another palm product - palm kernel oil, it gives the same plants as usual palm oil - oil palm. But do not produce fruit from the shell, and from seed. Palm oil has similar properties with coconut.

The availability of different types of palm oil causes some confusion, because under similar names disappear completely different products. Make no mistake in choosing.