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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by QuantumAphid on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:12PM (#20003484)
Agree on all counts except the sunflower oil. In general, avoid seed/vegetable oils, especially if they are used in high-heat cooking as in this example.

Vegetable/seed oils are not whole foods or naturally stable. They are modern frankenfoods made from leftover agri-waste via industrial chemical processes. Under high heat these oils become highly oxidated and not the kind of stuff you want your body to deal with.

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by McWobbleston on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:19PM (#20003545)
Do you have a source on this? Because this is contrary to what I have learned
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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by metanoia on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:36PM (#20003673)
Comparison of the oxidative stability of soybean and sunflower oils enriched with herbal plant extracts (Kozowlski, Gruczyńska, Chem Zvesti. 2018; 72(10): 2607–2615.)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6096694/

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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by OJFord on Friday May 24, 2019 @01:28PM (#20003607)
Sunflower oil generally has a higher smoke point than olive oil.
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Re:Calorie per Dollar List – Eat for 21 Dollars a Week by QuantumAphid on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:15PM (#20004493)
True. I cook with ghee (clarified butter) most of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...

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