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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Diet and Nutrition |
All saturated fats same?08/31/2009 |
Are all saturated fats equally bad for you? In other words: I usually use canola oil for cooking which has 2 grams of saturated fat. I want to switch to "Earth Balance Organic Buttery Spread" which contains 2.5 grams of saturated fat from Palm FRUIT oil. Is the palm fruit oil saturated fat worse, better, or the same as the saturated fat in the Canola oil? Thank You,
The saturated fat in palm oil acts very similarly in the body as the saturated fat in the canola oil. Canola oil is an excellent choice for cooking and baking. Canola oil is mostly mono- and poly-unsaturated fatty acids with a small amount of saturated fat. The nutritional content of the buttery spread is much like canola oil, but the fat sources include canola and olive oils as well as soybean and palm oils. Palm oil became a popular ingredient in food items after the U.S. government regulation requiring food labels to list the product's trans fat content came into effect. Many food processors want to eliminate trans fat by switching to other oils. Palm oil is one such alternative. Palm oil is under increasing scrutiny in relation to its effects on the environment. Some of the impacts include, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Julie Kennel Shertzer, PhD, RD, LD, CSSD Program Director OSU Extension Department of Human Nutrition College of Education and Human Ecology The Ohio State University |
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