Fat Content in Vegetable Oil, Ghee and Cooking Oil

Which cooking oil is the best one for you?

This online health calculator is an easy way to find out the fat content in cooking oil. Vegetable oils are an important part of a healthy diet as they are rich sources of essential fatty acids. Fat is one of the energy producing nutrients in your body. It is essential to include the correct proportion of fat in your diet for good health(1^✔).

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Food Items Clarified butter and ghee from practical paleo Butter oil, anhydrous Fish oil, cod liver Fish oil, herring Fish oil, menhaden Fish oil, menhaden, fully hydrogenated Fish oil, salmon Fish oil, sardine Oil, almond Oil, apricot kernel Oil, avocado Oil, canola Oil, cocoa butter Oil, coconut Oil, corn and canola Oil, cottonseed, salad or cooking Oil, flaxseed, cold pressed Oil, grapeseed Oil, hazelnut Oil, mustard Oil, oat Oil, olive, salad or cooking Oil, palm Oil, peanut, salad or cooking Oil, poppyseed Oil, rice bran Oil, safflower, salad or cooking, linoleic, (over 70%) Oil, sesame, salad or cooking Oil, sheanut Oil, soybean lecithin Oil, soybean, salad or cooking Oil, sunflower, high oleic (70% and over) Oil, sunflower, linoleic (less than 60%) Oil, sunflower, linoleic, (approx. 65%) Oil, sunflower, linoleic, (partially hydrogenated) Oil, teaseed Oil, tomatoseed Oil, walnut Oil, wheat germ Vegetable oil, palm kernel

Four types of dietary fats react differently inside your body.

• Saturated Fat
• Monounsaturated Fatty Acid (MUFA)
• Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid (PUFA)
• Trans Fat

Saturated fat increases the level of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) in the blood, which in turn increases the risk of heart disease, while unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA and PUFA) lower your LDL levels. Trans fats are considered to be more harmful than saturated fats as they not only increase LDL levels but also reduce HDL (good cholesterol) level(2^✔).Monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) are abundant in olive oil, avocado, nuts, peanut oil, safflower oil, and sesame oil(3^✔).Safflower oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, soybean oil, and fish are rich sources of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)(4^✔).Check out Medindia's 'Fat Content in Vegetable Oil or Ghee or Cooking Oil', an interactive diet calculator that calculates the amount of total fat, saturated fat, monounsaturated (MUFA) and polyunsaturated (PUFA) fatty acids in the edible oil you choose.