What is refined vegetable oil?

Many people like to eat foods such as biscuits, mainly because biscuits are delicious and can make people feel full. However, if people carefully check the ingredient list before eating biscuits, they will find that there is an ingredient called refined vegetable oil in the ingredient list. What is refined vegetable oil? Before this ingredient was mentioned, people must have known nothing about it, or even never heard of it, but in fact it is necessary for people to understand it well.

Refining produces trans fatty acids

Trans fatty acids, like saturated fatty acids, increase the cholesterol content in the human body, especially the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol content. Large amounts of intake may cause cardiovascular disease, gallbladder disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, cancer (such as colon cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer), etc. It may also inhibit the growth and development of the fetus and young children and harm male reproductive function. Moreover, trans fats are not easily metabolized and usually take more than 50 days to be metabolized out of the body.

Resist the temptation of taste

The hydrogenated fats are solid or semi-solid, making food taste crispier. This is why people generally find that some crispy and crunchy foods are particularly fragrant and delicious. Margarine, frying oil, shortening, etc. are all hydrogenated fats. The trans fatty acid content in them is generally between 5% and 45%, and can be as high as 65%. According to statistics, 80-90% of the trans fatty acids in vegetable oils used for cooking and processing in Americans' daily diet come from the hydrogenation of vegetable oils.

To truly reduce the harm of trans fatty acids to people's health, the intake of trans fatty acids in the diet should be reduced, especially for pregnant women and nursing mothers, whose daily intake should be less than 2g. Avoid and reduce the consumption of various cream cakes, fried snacks, etc. that are rich in trans fatty acids, and try to avoid high-temperature cooking or deep-frying.

remind:

When buying food in the supermarket, you may want to pay more attention to the following labels: If the ingredients include words such as refined vegetable oil, hydrogenated vegetable oil, semi-hydrogenated vegetable oil, artificial butter (cream), artificial vegetable butter (cream), artificial fat, shortening or non-dairy creamer, it means that trans fatty acids are present, and you should try to choose such products as little as possible.