I get that there is probably a more complex answer in reality, and probably an objective ranking, but I’m interested in what people’s perceptions are.

  • Bear@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    122·
    15 天前
    • S tier: tallow, duck fat, butter, ghee, lard
    • A tier: coconut oil
    • B tier: olive oil, avocado oil
    • C tier: peanut oil
    • F tier: everything else
  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    15 天前

    I was in a post on reddit sometime when we all got lectured about how every vegetable oil sucks and it’s better to eat lard or duck fat or tallow. “You clearly don’t know about lipids”. Haven’t figured out of that’s true or not but I’d definitely rather use butter than margarine.

    • huginn@feddit.it
      53·
      15 天前

      Veggie oils are totally fine and animal fats, while tasty, are definitely worse for you.

      I still use butter in cookies though.

  • modeler@lemmy.world
    21·
    15 天前
    1. Extra virgin olive oil for anything where the taste is a good thing
    2. Any oil with high monounsaturates and zero saturates (the rest being polyunsaturates). This may be a seed oil.

    Extra virgin olive oil (and it has to be extra virgin) is known and scientifically proven to be very good for you.

    Seed oils are today highly controversial - I avoided them for many years - but current science research suggests that they are perfectly safe, and indeed good for lowering cholesterol.

    Here’s a real scientist, working and published in exactly this area, talking about this exact question: https://youtu.be/VRlleOTBq7k?si=trB8t5xRjOJml5ug

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    14 天前

    Avocado, grapeseed, or coconut for high heat. Olive for dressings and marinades. Butter for flavored frying (eggs, rice, etc.). Olive for skin and herbal infusions. Argan for my daughter’s hair. Motor for the car. WD40 for squeaks.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.uk
    46·
    15 天前

    Seed oils are probably bad for you but the rest are either good or neutral. Olive or avocado oil is probably at the top but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with butter either

    • huginn@feddit.it
      54·
      15 天前

      Seed oils are definitely better for you than the alternatives, especially butter.

      I love butter: but it’s absolutely worse for you than canola oil.

  • Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org
    47·
    15 天前

    I really do not see what the point of them are and I don’t really taste what ‘benefits’ they claim to provide. They’re almost required for a lot of baking and cooking needs. However, I’ve found that sometimes, they can be avoided and the food will turn out fine on it’s own.

    Vegetable, Canola, Peanut, Sunflower .etc don’t look or sound healthy to me. I instead use Coconut.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    294·
    15 天前

    Fwiw, I’m pretty convinced that the anti-seed oil crowd is approximately as grounded in science as the anti-vaccine crowd - that is to say, not at all.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      15·
      15 天前

      Im not a doctor, but trained in (doing and reading) science. I’ve read up on this and can pretty confidently say you’re right.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    73·
    15 天前

    Coconut, olive, anything else just for occasional flavor but better if avoided, canola and soy are the worst. that’s my personal unresearched ranking.

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      10·
      15 天前

      Researched input on your ranking: canola and soy are healthier than coconut since they’re both multiply unsaturated whereas coconut is saturated and has shorter chains. As far as I can tell, canola has a pretty good profile of fatty acids.

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        4·
        15 天前

        Okay, again I haven’t read a thing so I’m not saying you are wrong. I’ve just heard too many times that coconut is better for cooking, especially frying, and also to be eaten raw. Something about oxidation and temperature. Whatever. If canola is healthier I might switch to it, it’s far cheaper after all.

        • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
          4·
          15 天前

          Hmm maybe that means it yields some better results, flavour and texture-wise? I’ve only ever used coconut oil as a cosmetic, and the only research I’ve done is health-based. As a general rule of thumb though, saturated fats are worse for you than non-saturated ones, and the less saturated a fat is, the lower the temperature where it goes from liquid to solid. Ie, butter melts at a higher temperature than coconut oil, so it’s more saturated. Coconut oil melts at a higher temperature than canola (canola goes solid way below the freezing temper of water), so it’s more saturated.

      • oldfart@lemm.ee
        3·
        14 天前

        Isn’t it common that shitty places, like a fries stand in a village festival or in tourist areas, recycle oil all the time, and the food tastes like bad oil?

        My friend once asked a guy at the fries stand if he changed his oil this month. The guy was visibly shaken and said of course he has, this oil is no more than a week old.

        • Rednax@lemmy.world
          3·
          14 天前

          Yup. Shit is gross. Still, the image of people recycling sewer sludge into cooking oil is burned into my brain, and an order of magnitude worse in my perception.

  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    14 天前

    In order from least healthy to most healthy:

    • Moldy Gym Sock Drippings Oil
    • Dumpster Guac Grease
    • Three-Year-Expired Sunflower “Oil” That’s Now a Solid
    • Fish Tank Backwash Extract
    • Hair Salon Sweepings Oil
    • Used Frying Oil from a Carnival Deep-Fryer
    • Regular Olive Oil (Extra Virgin)
    • Plain Old Canola Oil