Have you ever wondered how your grand parents who crossed 90 - 100 years lived without any health problems like cholesterol, diabetes, cardiac disease & other threatening illnesses? Do some research for your self & the answers you find will amaze you.
cooking oil is as essential as sugar & salt in everyday cooking. But choosing one such good for health and easy for cooking is very important. Recently i went through some sites and researched a few to find which oil has health & nutrition benefits in the modern day cooking. Surprisingly it was the olden day oils which won the credibility of health with researchers & not the modern refined variety. So here will be some facts & updated links to follow about these oils.
olive oil, sesame oil, coconut oil all there we know have their base from ancient days. They hold same old good qualities even now. Those who cooked with these three oils & still believe they enrich ones cooking taste here is your relief they also add lot of health & nutrition to your food source. In this preferred group joins the ghee or clarified butter. Everybody's concern about ghee is its full fat. on the other hand ghee holds less fat than butter is true because once the butter is melted in a process the heavy fat gets to the bottom of the vessel. So as long as a person don't consume that heavy fat crystal down in the vessel you shouldn't be afraid of cholesterol problems.
Recently lots of attention is diverted towards cooking oils and articles coming up in local grocery magazines too. one such kind recommended all refined oil variety should be used only for light cooking like baking, deep frying etc. And one researcher quotes that people turned to refined oil variety cooking only for the reason either the healthy oils where unavailable or costlier.
I am quoting here some links and books & web pages which do provide a healthy insight to a curious mind that searches truth supported by references. So i allow you do the job for your satisfaction. Now a days surfing on Internet will fetch you humpty number of information than you could possibly imagine. Go to books.google.com/books & give a search on anything. Again just a word is enough to bring more info's.