How to choose edible oil?

Three meals a day, frying, frying and stewing, are inseparable from edible oil

Pay attention to oleic acid content

In the daily diet, edible oil provides about 50% of the fatty acids required by the human body

Edible oils with high oleic acid content are popular in the market for their healthy and stable characteristics, and have become an important direction for the consumption upgrade of edible oil products

In particular, the rise of the Mediterranean dietary pattern has made more people know that the incidence of cardiovascular disease in residents living along the Mediterranean coast is significantly lower, which is related to the high oleic acid in olive oil that local people eat for a long time

Due to the stable chemical properties of oleic acid, it is not easy to oxidize and deteriorate, and high oleic acid vegetable oil can effectively prolong the shelf life and shelf life

High Oleic Peanut Oil Popular

One of the main factors that recommend olive oil in the Mediterranean diet is that it is rich in oleic acid, and high-oleic acid peanut oil is not only rich in oleic acid, but from the perspective of Chinese people's dietary structure, high-oleic acid peanut oil is more in line with Chinese people's oil habits

The "High Oleic Acid Peanuts" (NY/T 3250-2018) issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs stipulates that peanuts whose oleic acid content accounts for 70% or more of the total fatty acid are called high oleic acid peanuts

High-oleic acid peanut oil is favored by consumers because of its oleic acid content as high as 75%, and its rich fragrance more in line with the eating habits of Chinese people

High oleic acid peanut oil not only contains the nutritional value of oleic acid, but also rich in the nutritional value of peanut itself including vitamin E, sterols, squalene, resveratrol,

The yield of high oleic acid peanuts is higher, the yield per mu can be increased by 15%-20% compared with ordinary peanuts, and the purchase price is higher, bringing considerable benefits to farmers

(Zhang Lan)

"China Food News" (May 26, 2022 06 edition)

(Editor in charge: Zhu Meiqiao)