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Tips For Identifying Nutritious Oils
For Your Diet
Tip #1: Stay away from vegetable oils and eating foods that contain them – this includes soybean, canola, corn and safflower oils. These oils easily turn rancid, and then companies heat them at high temperatures so as to deodorize them. But that creates trans-fatty acids. In addition, soybeans here in America are more often than not GMO, and this create other problems. Small amounts of safflower oil are probably OK if you want to use that for making mayonnaise that does not have too strong of a flavor.
Tip # 2: Do NOT eat hydrogenated oils or foods that contain them, as these foods also may contain trans-fatty acids. This includes margarines. You far better off eating butter in your diet, especially if it come from cows that were out on pasture, than margarine.
Tip #3: Look for organic, cold-pressed olive, and nut and seed oils like sesame, walnut, pumpkin and almond oil to include in your diet. Use these oils in moderation, and make sure to buy them in small quantities so they won’t go rancid before you finish consuming them. Walnut and pumpkin oils will be rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are low in many of our diets today.
Tip #4: Even if you already use olive oil in your diet, look for extra-virgin olive oil that is cloudy and unrefined. This will provide more nutrients than other types of olive oil.
Tip # 5: Buy only virgin coconut oil, and look for foods that contain virgin organic coconut oil to use in your diet.
Tip #6: Look for the aroma and taste of the original product. If coconut oil, for example, no longer tastes or smells like coconuts, it was undoubtedly heated to a high temperature, and maybe chemically treated to purify it. If it tastes bland, some of the nutrients are missing, leaving a dead, lifeless oil.
Tip #7: Never buy oils that were chemically processed - this is the standard today because it helps companies get more oil out of the original product. One chemical often used is hexane.
Nutritious Oils Can Be Added to Foods and
Eaten as Part of a Healthy Diet
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