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Old Sat, May-22-04, 02:04
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I went to my nearest whole food store and on the oil section I found this “oil chart from Spectrum* (*brand of products)” to guide the buyers what oils to buy depending on your use.

I was surprise to find oils where classify to 4 levels depending on the stability for hi levels of cooking but the "coconut oil" they put it into the category number 2 = medium-heat cooking.

1. Hi-heat cooking
2. Medium-heat cooking
3. Low-heat cooking
4. Cold oil.

The “better” oil for hi levels of cooking was "Super Canola oil" but they put a regular "canola oil" as a Low-heat cooking. I am posting some links here from their site, they don't have the actuall chart I am talking about, but under "cooking oils" each oil has the explanation of what should it be use for.. I also posted some easy to explain some words we normally see on the stores.

You will be able to see the two different kinds of Canola oils, I wonder if someone can help me better undersand how "Super Canola Oil" is better choice for frying your food than "Coconut oil"

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Old Sat, May-22-04, 09:20
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Cucu, you must understand that Spectrum still caters mostly to the low-fat and vegetarian mainstream thinking. The only thing I would ever use canola oil for (super or otherwise) is to lubricate machinery. To my knowledge it is foreign to the human body. I believe that vegetable and seed oils are not stable, go rancid quickly, and do produce free radicals when heated, no matter what Spectrum claims. I would take their recommendations with a grain of salt. I'll look up some sites for you that go into more detail.

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