It is wonderful to have you again as we continue our discussions on our cooking ingredients. I know there is so much alarm on fats and oils that make people to easily forget its importance to our body as well as how to dispose it off after use. We will consider the health benefit and the safe disposal of waste oil and I am sure you will learn that indeed fats and oils are important in our food.
Have you thought of fats and oils as beneficial
to human health?
Hmm, I know you are surprise about this due to the increasing
issues about the intake of fats and oil. This has made people to lose sight of the fact that there is a need
to add a moderate amount of fat in our regular meals to avoid heart related problems and obesity. Now let take a closer look at
the health benefit of fats and oils in
human foods.
- Healthy oils in your diet is most helpful because these oils contain high amount of monounsaturated fat which lowers the total cholesterol in the blood as well as lowers LDL thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
- Some oils have polyphenols that are antioxidants and have the ability to reduce the rate of aging of the body e.g. olive oil.
- Oils obtained from fish is a good source of omega 3 fatty acids which reduces aging, lowers body cholesterol and decreases the rate of developing heart disease.
- Some oils are rich in saturated fat which is a very good source of energy and they also have antioxidant properties that reduces the rate of aging and hardening of the wall of the arteries like coconut oil.
Safe
Disposal of Waste Oil
After cooking, the ideal way to dispose of waste oil is by pouring it into a polyethene bag, tying and adding to the solid waste don’t pour it down the
drain. If the entire bottle of oil has turned rancid discard the bottle together with its contents.
This ends our discussions on fats and oils.In our next discussion we are going to talk about protein in our meals.
Thank you for joining me in this discussion I am
sure we have enjoyed this lesson. Please join me in my next post as we look at
proteins in our meals. Please send me your comments I want to read from you.
