How healthy is your Canola Oil?
One of the healthiest cooking mediums available today, canola oil is an extract of rapeseed. It offers several cooking and baking benefits. Benefits: Canola oil contains monounsaturated fats or good fats which lower levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol and maintain those of HDL (good) cholesterol. Therefore, this oil is beneficial to good health. As compared to other oils, canola oil has the least amount of saturated fats—seven percent as against 12% of sunflower oil, 13% of corn oil and 15% of olive oil. It is also far richer in omega-6 fatty acids, omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) and linolenic acid than any other cooking oil which the human body cannot produce on its own. If we have a considerable intake of ALA, it can protect our hearts from blood pressure problems, inflammation and cholesterol In fact, according to a study published in the Jouhttp://bit.ly/13ZqqUvrnal of the American Dietetic Association, using canola oil as your cooking medium can lessen your intake o