Oils that make your life healthier
It is believed that the biggest threat to health in developed countries are chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. The main cause is the faulty nutrition, with a high intake of mostly saturated fatty acids, isomers of unsaturated fatty acids.
Our daily diet lacks of poly-unsaturated omega 3 fatty acids that take part in lowering
triglycerides and high blood pressure, also prevent blood from clotting and increase HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol).
Omega 3 fatty acids are found in fish, especially fatty ones such as mackerel, salmon, sardinesor herring. They are also in bread, yogurt, soybean, tofu, walnuts, flax and pumpkin seeds.
Also cooking oils, namely flax seed, canola and soybean contain these important acids.
The list of edible oils, which can be incorporated into our diet, is very long. These include oil: canola, olive, soybean, linseed, mustard, corn, sunflower, safflower, poppy, grape seed, pumpkin seed, sesame, peanut, palm oil. There is a belief that olive oil is the healthiest and canola oil is not good for our body. However, these oils help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. This opinion has been stated and confirmed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
According to professor Krzysztof Krygier, rapeseed is often treated as a raw material of second kind because of poor oil quality. In fact, it is believed that canola oil is less “healthy” than others. Professor Krygier opposes this opinion claiming that today’s
rapeseed oil is completely different than some years ago. It has been deprived of two components: erucic acid and sulfur compounds. Erucic acid was considered health damaging and the sulfur compounds caused unpleasant taste and smell of the oil.
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