True or False? Butter, Ghee, Lard & Tallow - Are Saturated Animals Fats the Kings and Queens of the Frying Pan?
Even if animal fats were the best frying fats, this wouldn't turn doughnuts into "health food" and french fries into raw carrot sticks. If you "liked" the SuppVersity on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/SuppVersity ) you will probably already have seen the controversies and questions my post "Scientists on the Quest for the Perfect Frying Oil" ( read more ) has triggered. Eventually, it all revolves around yet another of those nutritional wisdoms that's circulating on the Internet: "Ghee, tallow, lard, ... saturated animal fats and the coconut miracle, of course, are the best and only frying oils you should use ." (next best Internet source) How on earth could F. Aladedunye, and R. Przybylski, the authors of the previously cited study even dare to state that high-oleic low-linolenic rapeseed , high-oleic sunflower oils are good frying oils? But enough of the sarcasm : In today's installment of "True or False" (read pre...