Best Cooking Oil?

Cooking Oil?

“What is the best cooking oil?” A better question might be, “Should we cook with oil?” or “Should we minimize the amount of oil we cook with?”

The Dr. Sebi Nutritional Guide recommends cooking with avocado oil, grapeseed oil, hempseed oil, and sesame. The guide recommends coconut oil and olive oil for consumption but not for cooking.

Oil Smoke Point

It appears Dr. Sebi recommended certain plant oils from foods on the guide because they were better to cook with since they have higher smoke points. Smoke point is the temperature an oil starts to burn and produce toxic by-products.

If you cook using high heat is better to cook with oils that have a higher smoke point to avoid the development of toxic by-products.

Besides oil’ smoke point you should be concerned with oil’s makeup.

Makeup Of Oils

Though the recommended oils come from healthy foods, their concentrated fat can undermine heart and arterial health.

Oil use is complicated. It is not the fat alone that compromises heart and arterial health, but also the type of fat.

Also the toxins in animal fat and chemical structure of GMO and hybridized plant fat also compromise health. The Dr. Sebi Nutritional Guide removes the animal fats and destructive GMO and hybridized plant fat.

Types Of Fat: w-6: Omega-6 Fatty Acids

Omega-6 fatty acids generally cause inflammation in the body. The body needs the fatty acids but too much of them is damaging.

There was naturally a 1:1 – 3:1 balance of the pro-inflammatory omega-6 fatty acid to the anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acid in the diet. Today the ratio can be 20:1 and even higher.

Animal fat compromises the endothelial function of arteries, which controls the artery’s ability to dilate and constrict to move blood and nutrients on their way.

Too much omega-6 from plant sources also compromises arterial health by causing inflammation in arteries, which aids in the development of cholesterol plaque in arteries.

This undermines the health of arteries, hardens arteries, and promotes high blood pressure.

Best Oil For Cooking

Studies show the societies that diets primarily health promoting plant based diet consumed 80% natural carbohydrates, 10% protein (nitrogen based compounds) and 10% fat.

Consuming lots of oil quickly raises the ratio of fat in the diet, and lots the body with fat which undermines the flow of electricity throughout the body in supporting optimal health.

Eating a mostly to all raw whole food diet helps to keep fat at the desirable levels in the bloodstream, arteries, and fat cells.

Avocado Oil

If you choose to cook with oil it appears the best cooking oil for health to use from the recommended oils on the Dr. Sebi Nutritional Guide would be avocado oil.

Refined avocado oil has a 500-520°F smoke point which is excellent. It also consists of 12.5% w-6, and a 13.1 : 1 omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. The ω-6:3 ratio is a bit high, but its lower percentage of w-6 introduces less w-6 into the body.

Though refined oils have a higher smoke point than unrefined oil, refined oil is less healthy than unrefined oil. This would support the argument of avoiding oil consumption or severely limiting its use.

Grapeseed Oil?

The guide recommends grapeseed oil because of its higher smoke point, but grapeseed oil consists of 69.6% w-6 and a ω-6:3 ratio of 696 : 1 and makes it inflammatory in the body.

Best Oil For Consumption

The guide recommends coconut oil and olive oil for consumption, but not for cooking.  You can use them as salad dressing instead of other inflammatory, GMO, and hybridized oils.

Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is my favorite oil, and coconut is one of my favorite foods. My total cholesterol level was at its lowest at 100 when I consumed a tablespoon of unrefined coconut oil daily when I first adopted a plant based diet

I don’t know how that would have worked out if I was still eating meat, diary, and processed foods.

Coconut Oil And HDL

Since I have stopped consuming coconut oil my total cholesterol has gone up, but only to 110. HDL is 55 and LDL is 55. Coconut consumption can raise total cholesterol levels in the blood because it raises HDL, which is needed to remove LDL in cholesterol plaque.

Unrefined coconut oil contains lauric acid which has anti-viral properties, and its abundance of medium chain fatty acids provide quick energy and improve cognition.

Coconut Oil And Omega-6

Coconut oil contains only 1.7% omega-6. Though it has a omega-6 to omega-3 ration of 88.2 : 1 it is neglectable because of the small amount of omega-6 and because of the protective properties of coconut oil.