Do NOT Cook with This!!!
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
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Summary
In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the best and worst oil for deep frying.
Seed oils are polyunsaturated fatty acids. Vegetable oil is actually seed oil—it doesn’t come from vegetables.
Seed oils go through industrial processing involving heating and the addition of solvents like hexane, a chemical found in gasoline. This process allows seed oils to be shelf-stable for long periods of time. Around 25% to 30% of our calories come from seed oils.
When you cook processed foods like donuts in seed oils, you’re combining sugar with fat and heat. This process, called glycation, creates sticky proteins in the body.
Fast food oil is reheated and reused repeatedly. The more it’s heated, the more toxic it becomes.
Seed oils were not originally created for human consumption. They’re incredibly damaging to the mitochondria and lead to insulin resistance, fatty liver disease, obesity, heart disease, and an increased risk for cancer.
Soybean oil causes the most damage to the body, followed by corn oil, sunflower oil, and canola oil. Healthier cooking oils for frying include avocado oil, coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil, beef tallow, butter, and ghee. Keep in mind it's best to cook over low or medium heat. Pan-frying, air-frying, and stir-frying are healthier options than deep-frying over high heat.
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| 0:00.0 | So let's talk about the best oil to deep fry your foods in. |
| 0:04.4 | Well, you should probably use something healthy like vegetable oil, right? |
| 0:08.0 | Because you could see these healthy vegetables here. |
| 0:11.7 | And you can see this one is Clover Valley so it's |
| 0:13.8 | probably a beautiful farm rolling hills and clover where they make this |
| 0:18.3 | vegetable oil and it's pure vegetable oil it's actually considered heart healthy on the label. |
| 0:24.9 | There's just a little bit of saturated fat in here. |
| 0:26.9 | I think it's two grams. |
| 0:28.7 | There's no sugar, there's no trans fats, |
| 0:32.2 | and there's no gluten. and so this is pretty much the best oil you should use to |
| 0:36.0 | de-fry your food and I hope you know that I am completely and utterly sarcastic today. |
| 0:47.6 | We're going to talk about seed oils right here and then I'm going to show you what I think you should do regarding the deep fried oils. Seed oils are called poly unsaturated fatty acids. |
| 0:56.3 | Poly meaning many unsaturated mean a type of oil that it's very very fragile and unstable. |
| 1:04.0 | Now the first thing you need to know is that when they talk about |
| 1:06.5 | vegetable oils, they're really talking about seed oils. |
| 1:10.2 | I know they have pictures of vegetables, |
| 1:11.7 | but this is not where they're getting the oil from. |
| 1:13.7 | It comes from corn, soy, canola, things like that. They're considered one part of the |
| 1:18.1 | altar process food category which they use industrial processing where they're heating |
| 1:24.1 | adding hexane which is a solvent that's in gasoline and so they go through this |
| 1:28.8 | incredible refining process where you end up with this very refined |
| 1:32.8 | empty oil. |
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