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Is Air Frying Healthier Than Deep Frying? Which Oil's Best for Each Method and How Do They Compare to Cooking?

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Air- or deep-frying, what's healthier? For most people that's not even a real question... rightly so?  "That's even a question?" I know, I know... With the health aura surrounding air frying it appears to be hilarious to even base a complete episode of SuppVersity | True or False  on the question whether air frying is in fact so much healthier than deep frying, but listen up: a recent study from the University of Porto  says that "most chemical parameters were similar on both frying processes, including [pro-carcinogenic]  acrylamide content" (Santos 2017). Can it really be that the air frying devices are another overhyped kitchen device you don't really need? Lean more about frying & co at the SuppVersity The Quest for the Optimal Frying Oil MUFA Modulates Gut Bacteria → Weight Loss Taste of Olive Oil Heals - Flavor's Enough! GMO Soybean Oil Proven to Be Pro-Inflammatory "Pimp My Olive Oil" - W/ Extra Antio...
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To Microwave or not to Microwave? Fish Thrives, While Extra Virgin Olive Oil Deteriorates in the Microwave Oven

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The effect of microwave steaming, i.e. steaming with the microwave by the means of one of those microwave steaming bags has not been tested in the study at hand, but it should be relatively harmless... assuming your steaming bag is BPA free. I know that people all around the world still argue that microwaving your foods would modify them in ways that render them at least less, if not simply downright un healthy. In reality, however, the safety of microwaving is well established; and there's evidence suggesting that it is rather the way of heating you should prefer than the way to heat you should avoid. With the latest study from the Unidad de Investigación y Desarrollo de Alimentos  the previously discussed and often (falsely) ignored formation of oxysterols, i.e. oxidized cholesterol  that's bad for your metabolic and cardiovascular health microwave (MW) foods or I should say fish just got even more attractive. You can learn more about omega-3 & co at the SuppV...
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Rodent Study: GMO Soybean Oil is Pro-Inflammatory & Induces DNA Damage! Extra Virgin Olive Oil to the Rescue!

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GMO Soybean oil? Better for cars only. I am pretty sure there will be rebuttals to the results of this study... although, it's published in the OpenSource journal Nutrients and was conducted by scientists from Saudi Arabia and the UK who probably don't have the media-connections the scientists who conducted the GMO-corn study back in the day had. Against that background it's unlikely that non- SuppVersity -readers will even hear about the paper El-Kholy et al. published in the June edition of Nutrients (El-Kohly. 2014) -- Well, that is - unless you spread the word, obviously ;-) You better take creatine than ecdysteroids if you want to build muscle Foods, not Macros Count! Olive Oil Flavor is Healthy Argan Oil as Test Booster Oleic Acid ⇄ Microbiome Tocotrienols? Red Palm Oil! SAD Diet Analysis Let's take a look at the methods and results, now. Needless to say that we are talking about preliminary rodent data, here - data from 40 adult ma...
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High Fish, Soy, Lard & Low Fat Diets: How Do They Affect Body Composition, Lipid and Glucose Metabolism? Results From Study on Rats That Don't Get Obese on High Fat Chow

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(Un!)Surprising results: The "healthy" soy oil is the only fat in the study at hand that causes NAFLD. I know, it is not certain whether or not the results of rodent studies will transfer to human beings and believe me, I would rather have seen this study conducted on humans or at least pigs. And while the latter are simply to expensive, the former are unreliable and don't like to be caged in metabolic wards... well, unless they receive a monetary compensation that costs about as much as a whole pigsty ;-) That being said, let's stick with what we have and take a look at the results, Yoko Hashimoto and her colleagues published in a recent issue of the medical journal Lipids (Hashimoto. 2013). The "obesity resistant" wistar rat and it's reaction to different dietary fats I promise, the results are interesting and probably highly relevant, because the strain of Wistar rats (Slc:Wistar/ST) used in this study does not become obese simply because...
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Standard American Diet Has 'Optimal' Fatty Acid Ratio to Induce Diabesity. Plus: Study Shows Doubling Saturated Fats Would Yield More Benefits Than Halving Them

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Study confirms: The SAD diet yields 'optimal' results (img. forbes.com) Since this post is already lengthy enough, I will spare you how saturated fatty acids have long falsely been accused as the sole driving force of the western obesity epidemic and how the tides appear to be slowly yet steadily appear to be turning, as scientists delve deeper and deeper into the interactions of the total fat content in the diet, its fatty acid composition and the interaction of both with the two other macronutrients and their specific forms and get right to the study at hand. A study that appears in the current issue of the Journal of Lipid Science and deals with the first of the aforementioned interactions. The one that focuses on the total fat content and the individual fatty acid make-up of the diet (Enos. 2012). Fat shoot out: Saturated vs. mono vs. PUFA As Enos et al. point out, the main purpose of their study was to examine the effects of three high fat diets differing only wi...
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You Are What You Eat? Not Really! Rodent Study Shows Mice Are What the Salmon Ate That's in Their Chow

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Image 1: Farmed Atlantic salmon - raised with & fried in soy *yummy* Health conscious as you are, you will probably make sure to get grassfed beef, pay extra for the delicious Kerrygold butter and ask your farmer whether the chicken that lay the eggs you are just about to buy were pastured or received the standard feed and tons of antibiotics... right? Ok, but do you know what the fish that's lying there right in front of you had as his last supper? No? Well, after reading today's SuppVersity news, you will probably give your fish monger the third degree... but one thing after the other. We are what that what we eat ate! In a soon to be published study in the British Journal of Nutrition , Anita R. Alvheim and her colleagues from the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research , the Department of Biomedicine  at the University of Bergen in Norway, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Rockville, USA, and the Department of Biology at ...
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