Best Cooking Oil: Cooking Olive Oil
What is the best cooking oil? Should you cook with olive oil? Olive oil gets all the attention, but it is actually no healthier than many other oils.
When choosing oils for cooking or salad dressings, your main health consideration should be avoiding hydrogenated oils because of their high levels of artery-clogging trans fat.
And yes, you can cook with olive oil, but not with virgin olive oil, because it has a low smoke point, which means it quickly becomes unstable when heated. Other than that, choose based on taste and cost. Virgin olive oil is good for salad dressings, but I like to use canola oil or a regular olive oil for cooking.
Whether your oil comes from soybeans, safflower seeds, corn, peanuts, walnuts or olives, all oils are high in calories – 120 calories per tablespoon – so use them sparingly. Olive oils labeled “light” mean they are light in color, not calories.
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