Dangers of Cooking Oil

Oil Used For Health Threat

Cooking oil will give a more savory taste, but keep in mind is how the quality of the oil that will be used?

Because the use of cooking oil repeatedly will negatively impact your health due to high saturation levels, some of the literature explains that cooking oil is used repeatedly can be a trigger of various cancers.

Some health experts recommend using cooking oil is not more than three (three) repetitions.

The used cooking oil so choice because it is cheaper, but the actual use of used cooking oil is very dangerous for health.

Based on the research, it has been found various indications of diseases caused by foods that are fried using cooking oil, such as coronary heart disease and even to cancer. This is what ought to be cautious.

The use of cooking oil repeatedly at high temperature will result in a hydraulic fats into free fatty acids are easily oxidized, so oil becomes rancid and forming trans fatty acids that can cause health problems associated with cholesterol metabolism, high blood pressure, and heart

Not only that, the repeated use of used oil will also form acrolein, a compound that causes itching in the throat and cause coughing. And that is no less dangerous, this oil is also a known carcinogen that can cause cancer.

Therefore, experts advise to consume foods that contain saturated fats less than 10 percent of the daily intake. Saturated fat sources are generally derived from fatty meat, milk fat, butter, lard, coconut oil, palm oil, and palm kernel oil.


In addition, every time you want to fry food, begin frying process at the correct temperature. Oil used for frying should range between 175-225 degrees Celsius.