What Is The Best Cooking Oil? coconut oil vs avocado oil vs olive oil vs vegetable oil vs butter

Hello and welcome to shopping with Dr. Ekberg. I'm just going to talk a little

bit about oils today. So for the last 50 years all we have ever heard is that

saturated fats are bad and all the unsaturated fats are good. Well it's not

quite that simple. The other thing we've heard is that vegetable fats are good

and animal fats are bad, and that's not true either. What is true is natural fats

are good for you and processed fats are bad for you. Another distinction we want

to make when it comes to oils is the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6s. Omega-3

oils are truly vegetable oils. Those are anti-inflammatory whereas omega-6 oils

are pro-inflammatory and all the oils that we typically call vegetable

oils are actually not vegetable oils. They're seed oils and

grain oils such as soy, corn, and canola. Those are not vegetables they are

omega-6 oils and therefore pro-inflammatory. So we want to base our

consumption on vegetable which means things like avocado and olive. Another

great choice is a coconut oil because even though it is saturated it is

extremely healthy. It contains, a very large, as much as 60% of short chain

fatty acids that are excellent sources of energy and that create no

inflammation at all. So this would be the worst of the worst this is what they

call a vegetable but it's actually made from beans and then it's shortening

which means that they have had hydrogenated it. This is pure poison it is right

up there with pesticides and heavy metals in terms of toxicity. It screws up

your cell membranes interfering with everything in your body. Then

we have the second worst which is extremely cheap highly processed soybean

oil. We want to definitely stay away the pro-inflammatory and they're not really

good for anything. Same thing with corn oil extremely

highly processed. Corn oil has to be extracted with solvents. It tastes

terrible so they have to bleach it and take every form of nutrients and flavor

out of it before they can use it. And that's why these things are so cheap.

Then we have something called vegetable oil and then when we look what it is we

see soybeans so again it's not a vegetable oil.

It's a from a legume. And canola same thing it's not the vegetable oil it's an

omega-6 oil. Now here we come to one of my marginal

oils this is what I use to make mayonnaise and I make my own mayonnaise

because I want something that is light and flavor but that's not an omega-6 oil.

So even though this is not the best I wouldn't consider it a super healthy

it's also not a terrible choice. It is an omega-3 oil but it is also processed to

some degree. That's why I use it in moderation but I wouldn't consider it

for cooking or eating on a regular basis.

And then we get to the good stuff so here is extra virgin olive oil. This

is a good choice, and the only thing that we want that is better is to make sure

that it's organic. And you will spend a couple of dollars more for organic but

this is still an incredibly inexpensive foods. You get thousands of calories. You

have 15,000 calories approximately in one of these bottles for $15 so it's not

going to break your budget. So you want to spend a few dollars more on getting a

high-quality oil because toxins and pesticides and hormones are fat soluble,

so anything that you eat a concentrated source of fat is also going to have a

concentrated source of toxins. So get the purest you can spend a little bit more

and again this is still very very inexpensive.

And here we go with coconut oil which is the most heat stable healthy oil there

is. So for all your cooking as much as possible

You want to use coconut oil. It's an excellent choice cook your vegetables in

it use coconut oil. And what we don't see here is the other good fat is butter.

But you want to make sure that it is grass-fed because if the cows have that

grass they have a healthy ratio between omega-3s and omega-6s. Whereas if they're

corn-fed like most of them are then they're gonna have a much higher ratio

of omega-6 S which is pro-inflammatory. So I hope this health... hope this helps

check out our future videos and our other videos on fat, and we will talk

more about these things