Fried chicken, bacon, hotdog, French fries-these are just some of the food cooked by frying that most of you like to indulge in. However, did you know that despite being delicious and smelling good, fried food lose some of their nutrients when plunged in oil? Here comes refined olive oil to the rescue.
Refined olive oil is the olive oil (or oil obtained from olive trees) acquired by processing virgin olive oils with high acidity level using charcoal and another device to remove impurities. It is notable for, among other qualities, being tasteless, unlike unrefined olive oil (olive oil that didn’t undergo chemical changes), which has a more distinctive flavor. You can find refined olive oils at the supermarkets.
In a study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, researchers revealed that refined olive oil, when used for frying, retain the nutrients of food better than the other oils, thus, producing a healthier fried food. You can notice that different types of cooking oils undergo various changes when heated. These include the decrease of the nutritional value of the food being fried, and the release of harmful chemicals, especially when frying with used oil.
To find out which cooking oil can preserve its quality when heated or reused, Mohamed Bouaziz and his team of researchers cooked French fries using four types of oil-olive oil, corn oil, soybean, and sunflower oil- and reused the oil multiple times. The researchers also used two cooking methods: deep-frying, in which food is completely submerged in hot oil; and pan-frying, which involves a small amount of oil. They found out that olive oil kept its quality when deep-frying at 320 and 374 degrees Fahrenheit unlike the other oils, which deteriorated quickly when pan frying at the same temperatures, thus better for frying food.
Another important thing about refined olive oil is that you will not have to worry about common health problems caused by eating foods dipped in oil, such as obesity, stroke, and type-2 diabetes, as it lowers your risk of getting them. Refined olive oil also helps you avoid Alzheimer’s disease and cancer diseases.
Hopefully, by next time, I can finish my writing about “Alzheimer’s Disease can be Avoided with Refined Olive Oil” as a continuation of this first article about olive oil.
Eat oily foods, worry less, and enjoy the crispiness with refined olive oil. Stay healthy.
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Cooking vegetables using Oil is an important part of cooking. The vegetables are generally fried for taste. Sometimes people prefer deep frying. Frying vegetables is not good for health as many of the nutrients in the vegetables and other food items will become less effective and instead of doing good they do harm. This is nothing but purchasing unhealthy by spending money. If the vegetables or food items are not cooked using frying methods the loss of nutrients will be very much less. Hence, the cooking procedure suitable for the preparation should be adopted.
The refined oil is meant for frying the items as the loss of nutrients while frying will be lessened using this oil.
Refined oils will be very different in their properties.
They will have less weight
They will have less density
The fat content in the Oils will be less when compared to Ordinary oil
The calories will also be very less.
The oil will be quite free from other impurities.
It is these properties which make them more preferable by the people than ordinary oil. The health problems like stroke, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes can be kept at a distance by using Refined oils.
There are many different refined oils like Groundnut oil, Palmolive Oil, Avocado Oil, Virgin oil, Canola Oil, Coconut Oil.
One should always remember that any food vegetable or non-vegetable will lose its nutrients whenever it is heated. The loss of nutrients will be directly proportional to the degree of heating. This loss of nutrients will be different for different refined oils. This loss of nutrients will be very less when one uses refined Palmolive Oil. Therefore, many people suggest and prefer Palmolive Refined Oil than using other refined oils in India.
Usage of Virgin Oil is, of course, is preferred but is confined to only rich and wealthy families in view of its being quite expensive
However, it is best to avoid deep-frying or frying of vegetables or non-vegetables while cooking the food items and it is better they are minimized as low as possible.
That's because olive oil is considered the healthy oil.
So, how do we kow if the olive oil in the market is the refined oil. Does it have a mark like that?
What about virgin olive oil as it is the most that i see in supermakrtes, can using it in frying will have the. same health benefits as the refined oil?
Canola oil is also what is being said as healthy or good for frying. It's what we use for frying because it's much cheaper that olive oil.