It is not uncommon, when cooking various products we use vegetable oils. The most popular among us are sunflower, olive and corn, which we know well, especially when compared to animals, and we often do not think about harm. There are many other species and not all of them are useful, and some are even dangerous to health.
Harm and benefit of vegetable oil
Vegetable oil is a product that is obtained from plant raw materials. This kind of oil usually contains triglycerides, fatty acids, sterols, wax and other auxiliary elements.
The main distinguishing feature of oils is their hydrophobicity, that is, the inability to dissolve in water. It is because of this property that vegetable fats can be both beneficial and harmful to humans.
Benefits of vegetable oil
The main benefit for the human body from fats, both vegetable and animal - energy. 4/5 of all the energy reserves we get is due to fats, and some useful substances, for example, like fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins , phospholipids come to our body only from fats. Moderate consumption of vegetable oils will also enrich us with vitamins A, D, E, so necessary for normal life and metabolism. It should be noted that vegetable oils, in addition to being themselves sources of vitamins, also help to assimilate vitamins A and E contained in other foods. But, if there are so many useful substances in this product, it will be natural to consider what vegetable oils are harmful.
Damage to vegetable oil
In this matter, it is important and what kind of vegetable oil we consume in food and in what quantities. Of course, all nutritionists are advised to add more liquid vegetable oils of the first pressing and unrefined ones. In such oils the most useful substances are stored. It is necessary to completely abandon the products that contain palm oil , as when it is used, raw materials that are not sufficiently purified are used.