Edible oil is necessary for our daily diet, the main component is fatty acids, different oils in fatty acid composition and nutrients, and whether the fatty acid intake is balanced has an important impact on the body.
What are the fatty acids in the oil?
Common fatty acids in edible oils are saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids. The fatty acids in the oil vary and have different effects on the body. Theoretically, too much saturated fatty acids poses a cardiovascular risk, while too much n-6 unsaturated fatty acids may cause inflammation in the body and increase the risk of chronic disease. And in the daily diet, we should also try to ensure a balanced intake of various fatty acids at each meal, which is more conducive to health.
Two misunderstandings of stir-frying oil to avoid
01 Change after eating
If a family of three who often cooks buys a barrel of 5L of cooking oil, how long will it take to eat it? It turns out that it takes about two months to eat. If you eat only one type of oil for nearly two months, you may limit the intake of other types of cooking oil. Moreover, even peanut oil, which has been more accepted in the market in recent years, has a slightly higher saturated fatty acid content than other vegetable oils. If you eat it all the time, you may also limit the intake of different fatty acids, thus lacking certain fatty acids that the body cannot synthesize.
02 Similar fatty acids are exchanged with each other
There are also friends who know to change the oil to eat, but because they don't know the difference between fatty acids, they still change the wrong one. For example, eat corn oil this month and sunflower oil next month. But in fact, they all belong to the N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid series of oils, the oil type has been changed, but the fatty acids have not been changed, it is really "change the soup without changing the medicine". It is recommended that you can adopt a one-step method to choose scientific edible oils, such as medium and long chain fatty acid edible oils (MLCT).
What is medium and long chain MLCT
Medium and long chain fatty acid edible oil (MLCT) is a special triglyceride with both medium chain fatty acids and long chain fatty acids on its triglyceride backbone. Its biggest advantage is that it can not only meet the energy required by the body, but also quickly decompose, and is not easy to cause fat accumulation.
Medium-chain fatty acids are small molecules that are easier to absorb than our common long-chain fatty acids, so they can be quickly digested and metabolized, so that they can quickly provide energy, do not accumulate in the body, and can effectively reduce fat accumulation and reduce body weight.
Long-chain fatty acids in turn provide essential fatty acids. MLCT combines the nutritional properties of these two types of fatty acids, and also makes up for the lack of simple intake of one of them.
The difference between LCT and MCT and MLCT
LCT (commonly used edible oils such as peanut oil, corn oil, etc.) can provide us with essential fatty acids for the body, but the metabolism is slow, which is easy to cause fat accumulation and cause obesity.
MCT (palm oil, coconut oil) can quickly digest and decompose into energy while providing me with the fatty acids I need, and it is not easy to gain weight, but it cannot provide the essential fatty acids for our human body, and the ketone bodies produced after long-term intake may also accumulate in the body, which will adversely affect health. Moreover, the smoke point is low, easy to foam, not suitable for home use and consumption.
MLCT (medium and long chain fatty acid edible oil) glycerin skeleton because there are both long-chain fatty acids and short-chain fatty acids, so it inherits the advantages of LCT and MCT while overcoming the shortcomings of the two: it can not only supplement the essential fatty acids of the human body, but also quickly absorb energy and avoid fat accumulation, not easy to gain weight, high smoke point, not easy to foam, can completely replace LCT, as a homemade cooking oil to eat.