Cooking Oil

[Jip99]

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90% free.

[JulieM]

You should add your expertise here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola#Health_information

[Jip99]

You should add your expertise here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola#Health_information

I have no expertise - I simply posted a cooking oil chart that I found informative and helpful.

Perhaps you can take up your crusade with the author.

[rabid old goat]

I like this chart:-

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says "buy olive oil in tins not glass"

whats that all about. only ever bought it in glass.

Light breaks down the oil and eventually makes it rancid.

You can buy it in dark colored glass and store it out of sunlight and it will be fine. And the suggestion that canola oil is unhealthy is just plain bonkers for most every opinion and study you will find.

its like peanuts some people can some cant. canola is the same as that only different people are affected

[Tywais]

Inflammatory and argumentative posts removed.

[WheresWaldo]

When buying the lge tins of palm oil,you should check the price

per ltr,as the ltr.size is/was a controlled price ,where the larger

sizes are not,so buying a 18 ltr.tin might be more expensive than

18x1 ltr. plastic bottles.that happens with some other products at

Makro,

Regards Worgeordie

I have noticed the same thing in many other products.

As for strange things happening in Macro didn't they just get bought out by the same company that owns 7/11?

It's gone to hell and many prices have shot up since CP bought it out. A damned shame. CP is gradually cornering the Thailand food market. Sights are on Lotus now. The rich do not like competition, and Khun Dhanin (Chinese ancestry) is very rich...

[Gonzo the Face]

I have to agree with Waldo on some of his post...... Makro has really gone downhill in the past year...... and its really a management problem, either not knowing or just plain not caring. Yesterdays trip out to the superhighway Makro was probably the worst that I have ever seen it.....One of the most serious problems is the stocking method. They are stocking all areas at once. Pallets of stock placed in all aisles in such a helter-skelter way that there is not room for the shopping buggies to pass .... too many of the staff just grouping up and jibber-jabbing and just overall laz-ing around and not doing their work. They store pallets in between the small islands , backed up waiting their turn to block the shopping aisles. Very large amount of mis-labeling, and always wrong in the more expensive direction , not cheaper. Products relocated to completely different aisle rows.

No, it does not make for happy shopping at Makro anymore......and I have been going out to this store almost 20 years now..... still have the original orange makro card ..... refuse to give that up for a new one, that I do not use.

------ and give up trying to go to the desk to talk to a manager.....I guess they are too self impressed with their job to mingle with the mortals.

[worgeordie]

The shelves should be stocked at night,but i cannot see management would

pay extra to do that,so you have to try and move around pallet filled aisles,

and trolleys just left at all angles by other customers who just don't think or

care.it happens in the supermarkets also.

Regards Worgeordie

[Jip99]

The shelves should be stocked at night,but i cannot see management would

pay extra to do that,so you have to try and move around pallet filled aisles,

and trolleys just left at all angles by other customers who just don't think or

care.it happens in the supermarkets also.

Regards Worgeordie

I am not sure that you would necessarily have to pay (much) more - just organise shifts, and incoming deliveries to match those shifts.

I also agree that no more than one aisle should be roped off, and I agree even more that boxes of stock should be strewn everywhere causing obstacles.

[xylophone]

Use only sunflower or rice bran oil. Both are plentiful here and inexpensive. Most anything else is going to have high saturated fat levels. These oils have super low saturated fat levels due to their high flash points. Take car of your arteries. Avoid soybean, corn, cottonseed, and canola oil, like the bubonic plague.

This is another zombie idea that has long since been exploded. Exploding zombies!! At any rate, you can look up the latest massive studies and the history of the mistaken belief that saturated fats are bad for your health. The only kind of saturated fats that are harmful are the transfats (hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are mostly an industrial artefact.

Don't have a problem with the "new evidence" that saturated fats are okay (excluding trans-fats).

From what I can understand, we should really be worried about what we are finding in the vegetable oils we regularly consume, especially as these were touted as the healthy alternatives.

Most, if not all of them contain quite high levels of omega 6 compared to their omega 3 content and apparently it is the omega 6 content which can cause inflammation in the body and in arteries, which is now one of the key suspects in why plaque is laid down in the arteries in the first place.

Add to that the fact that some of the plants used in them are glyphosate resistant and can therefore be sprayed with this herbicide which will find its way into the product. In addition to that there is the method of "refining" the product using chemicals and solvents and heat treating processes.

Finally, the process of heating these oils can have further detrimental effect on them and of course on the person consuming them.

I used to think that rice bran oil was the best all-round product, however this has since been proven incorrect. Seems like a good old extra-virgin olive oil is the way to go!

[spidermike007]

Use only sunflower or rice bran oil. Both are plentiful here and inexpensive. Most anything else is going to have high saturated fat levels. These oils have super low saturated fat levels due to their high flash points. Take car of your arteries. Avoid soybean, corn, cottonseed, and canola oil, like the bubonic plague.

This is another zombie idea that has long since been exploded. Exploding zombies!! At any rate, you can look up the latest massive studies and the history of the mistaken belief that saturated fats are bad for your health. The only kind of saturated fats that are harmful are the transfats (hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are mostly an industrial artefact.

Don't have a problem with the "new evidence" that saturated fats are okay (excluding trans-fats).

From what I can understand, we should really be worried about what we are finding in the vegetable oils we regularly consume, especially as these were touted as the healthy alternatives.

Most, if not all of them contain quite high levels of omega 6 compared to their omega 3 content and apparently it is the omega 6 content which can cause inflammation in the body and in arteries, which is now one of the key suspects in why plaque is laid down in the arteries in the first place.

Add to that the fact that some of the plants used in them are glyphosate resistant and can therefore be sprayed with this herbicide which will find its way into the product. In addition to that there is the method of "refining" the product using chemicals and solvents and heat treating processes.

Finally, the process of heating these oils can have further detrimental effect on them and of course on the person consuming them.

I used to think that rice bran oil was the best all-round product, however this has since been proven incorrect. Seems like a good old extra-virgin olive oil is the way to go!

For me, olive oil colors the taste of most food, way too much. And it has a lower flash point than either rice bran or sunflower oil. I still insist they are the healthier choices. As far as the original reply that saturated fat is not unhealthy, it is a bit like the medical doctors in the 50's insisting that smoking was good for you. I just don't buy it. But, I am sure the industry loves his argument.

[kaptainrob]

Makro Hang Dong had a pallet of Palm Oil in big tins as at 1130hrs.

[quidnunc]

Use only sunflower or rice bran oil. Both are plentiful here and inexpensive. Most anything else is going to have high saturated fat levels. These oils have super low saturated fat levels due to their high flash points. Take car of your arteries. Avoid soybean, corn, cottonseed, and canola oil, like the bubonic plague.

This is another zombie idea that has long since been exploded. Exploding zombies!! At any rate, you can look up the latest massive studies and the history of the mistaken belief that saturated fats are bad for your health. The only kind of saturated fats that are harmful are the transfats (hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are mostly an industrial artefact.

Don't have a problem with the "new evidence" that saturated fats are okay (excluding trans-fats).

From what I can understand, we should really be worried about what we are finding in the vegetable oils we regularly consume, especially as these were touted as the healthy alternatives.

Most, if not all of them contain quite high levels of omega 6 compared to their omega 3 content and apparently it is the omega 6 content which can cause inflammation in the body and in arteries, which is now one of the key suspects in why plaque is laid down in the arteries in the first place.

Add to that the fact that some of the plants used in them are glyphosate resistant and can therefore be sprayed with this herbicide which will find its way into the product. In addition to that there is the method of "refining" the product using chemicals and solvents and heat treating processes.

Finally, the process of heating these oils can have further detrimental effect on them and of course on the person consuming them.

I used to think that rice bran oil was the best all-round product, however this has since been proven incorrect. Seems like a good old extra-virgin olive oil is the way to go!

For me, olive oil colors the taste of most food, way too much. And it has a lower flash point than either rice bran or sunflower oil. I still insist they are the healthier choices. As far as the original reply that saturated fat is not unhealthy, it is a bit like the medical doctors in the 50's insisting that smoking was good for you. I just don't buy it. But, I am sure the industry loves his argument.

It might be possible for you to be more wrong about this subject but you'd have to try really hard. Just look up the latest research. Massive studies have been done to show that this is nonsense. In fact, the nonsense about saturated fat being harmful began in the 1950's thanks to a crusade by one doctor. This mistaken belief probably won't die until the generation that was weaned on it passes on.

[xylophone]

I'd have to agree that the latest research certainly paints saturated fats in a much better light, although balance and moderation in everything always seems to be the winner.

Strangely enough, some 15-18 years ago I was being put through an executive medical program and was enquiring about the work going on in the new annex of the building, I was told that it was being set up to focus on the heart and associated problems. Anyway such was my curiosity that I went next door to have a look and was told that the procedure was very expensive, however they were in the process of setting up and testing it (a machine) and if I liked, they would do a "trial run" on me for $200 or thereabouts (if my memory serves me correctly).

It was very much like an MRI/CAT machine and it produced 3-D images which was quite something in those days.

Anyway, after the process was complete and the computer images available, the specialist explained to me that I was extremely lucky because I had just about no trace of inflammation in the arteries around my heart and certainly no calcium laid down which was apparently the next step.

This Doctor/specialist was of the opinion (and he said this opinion was gaining momentum) that cholesterol in itself certainly was not the main cause of heart disease, but it started with inflammation, then a calcium plaque being laid down, which narrowed the artery, and then this narrowing causing a blockage in which some of the larger particles of cholesterol flying around the bloodstream would be trapped – – that's as I recall it, or at least something very similar to it.

So back then there were certainly some of the medical fraternity questioning the reasons for heart attacks etc quite early on in the piece.

Reminds me of the "coconut oil is bad for you" findings, based on the research of one man who was totally biased.