IS REFINED OIL REALLY HEALTHY? USE FILTER OIL FOR HEALTH
यूं तो आप टीवी पर रिफाइंड ऑयल के तमाम एड देखती होंगी और आपके लिए यह फैसला लेना मुश्किल होता होगा कि किस ऑयल का चुनाव करें, लेकिन आप इस बात से बिल्कुल अंजान है कि यह आपकी सेहत के लिए गंभीर समस्याएं पैदा कर सकता है। आइए जानते हैं रिफाइंड ऑयल के दुष्प्रभावों के बारे में...
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रिफाइंड ऑयल को तैयार करने के लिए बड़ी मात्रा में हानिकारक रसायनों का उपयोग किया जाता है और इस प्रक्रिया में तेल के अच्छे तत्व भी खत्म हो जाते हैं। इसके अलावा रिफाइनिंग की प्रक्रिया में तेल को बहुत अधिक तापमान पर गर्म किया जाता है, जिससे यह जहरीले तत्वों का निर्माण करने लगते हैं।
रिफाइंड ऑयल को तैयार करने के लिए बड़ी मात्रा में हानिकारक रसायनों का उपयोग किया जाता है और इस प्रक्रिया में तेल के अच्छे तत्व भी खत्म हो जाते हैं। इसके अलावा रिफाइनिंग की प्रक्रिया में तेल को बहुत अधिक तापमान पर गर्म किया जाता है, जिससे यह जहरीले तत्वों का निर्माण करने लगते हैं।
रिफाइंड ऑयल पर किए गये रिसर्च में यह बात सामने आई है कि इसके बजाए पारंपरिक खाद्य तेल का प्रयोग अपेक्षाकृत अधिक सेहतमंद होता है। कई शोध में यह सामने आया है कि हमारे स्वास्थ्य के लिए खाना पकाने के लिए सरसों तेल, नारियल तेल और घी, जैसे परंपरागत तेल का इस्तेमाल करना बेहतर है।
जिस तेल को हम कॉलेस्ट्रॉल से बचने के लिए इस्तेमाल कर रहे है वह भले ही हमें इससे बचा रहा हो लेकिन यह हमारे शरीर के आंतरिक अंगों से प्राकृतिक चिकनाई को भी खत्म कर देता है। इसके सेवन से हमारी शरीर को जिन फैटी एसिड की जरूरत है वह भी हमें नहीं मिल पाती है। जिस वजह से हमें जोड़ों, स्किन और अन्य समस्याएं हो जाती है।
Cold Pressed Oil Vs. Refined Oil. Why you should NOT use Refined oils.
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REFINED OIL
Other oils seeds such as rapeseed (canola), soybean, corn, sunflower, safflower, etc
This process kills all the nutrition and alters the
When you take a natural food product and expose it to multiple chemical processes, how can it be natural and healthy?
Multiple studies have linked consumption of refined oils to many chronic diseases. Chemically extracted oils lead to inflammation within the body, elevated blood triglycerides and an impaired insulin response, etc.
These days Refined oils are advertised as “Vitamin +”. Oil should be a natural product!
Making oil is such a simple process. Then why do Refined oils exist?
- Seeds such as rapeseed (canola), soybean,
corn, sunflower, safflower, etc CANNOT yield oil through natural extraction techniques. To extract oil from these seeds, only chemical refining process works. Since 1950s, manufacturers also started using refining process for groundnut, sesame, coconut, etc. - Refined oil extraction has higher oil yield. For example, in cold pressed method we need 2.5kg of groundnuts to make 1 litre of groundnut oil. The refined process will extract 1 litre of oil from 2.2 kg of groundnuts
- Since refined oil is neutralized for taste, colour and odour, very low quality oil seeds are used. (Cold pressed oil has to use only good quality oil seeds; otherwise, a consumer will indentify the lapse in quality)
- This is the most shocking part. Palm oil constitutes nearly 45% of edible oil consumed in India. Palm oil is the most consumed oil. How? Nobody goes to the grocery store to buy Palm oil and there isn’t Palm oil in grocery store shelves, yet we consume so much palm oil. Cheap and neutral oils such as palm oil, cotton seed oil, etc. are mixed with other oils for profits. This is a widespread and
accepted “Oil blending” practice in the oil industry.
Google
- Refined oil has longer shelf life as it is chemically treated. There is nothing to be spoilt in it as there is no organic life in it
Palm oil is the most consumed oil in India. This is because refined oils are blended with Palm oil.
Cold Pressed oil Vs. Refined oil
How are oils made?
COLD PRESSED OIL
Naturally, oil seeds can be pressed
to extract oil (Like pressing juice from a fruit). Sesame seeds, Coconut, Groundnut/Peanut, Olive, etc are a few from
which oil can be extracted by just pressing, which is a natural process.
Steps
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HAPRAPPA COLD PRESSED oil processing steps
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Short description
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1
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Oil seeds are cleaned and dried to
remove any moisture in it
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Natural drying using sunlight
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2
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The seeds are then crushed using a
slow grinding machine with a Pestle and Mortar. (Just like pressing juice
from a fruit)
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Natural squeezing
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3
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The oil extracted is then filtered
to separate the oil from the seed pulp
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Natural gravity sedimentation
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“Chekku”, “Ghani” & “Kolhu” oil are some colloquial words used
in India to describe Cold Pressed Oil machines. This is THE
NATURAL METHOD OF EXTRACTING OIL. Since no heat is applied during the
extraction (unlike refined oils) this natural method is known as COLD
PRESSED.
In ancient times, a cow was used to grind oil seeds to make oil.
These days we use a mechanical oil pressing machine as shown in the
image.
REFINED OIL
Other oils seeds such as rapeseed (canola), soybean, corn,
sunflower, safflower, etc CANNOT yield oil through natural
extraction techniques. These vegetable oils were non-existent until the early
1950s, when chemical treatment and processing (refining) techniques allowed
them to be extracted. Because these oils are chemically extracted, they
need to be refined. Our bodies weren’t meant to consume chemically extracted
refined oil.
Steps
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Refined oil processing steps
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Short description
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1
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Oil seeds (groundnuts, sesame,
coconut, sunflower seeds, etc) are crushed and then heated in a steam
bath – 110 to 2000 Celsius
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HIGH TEMPRATURE
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2
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The mixture of oil and seed pulp
is then chemically processed with a hexane solvent to extract any residual
oil from the pulp. (Hexane is produced by refining crude petroleum oil)
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HEXANE SOLVENT
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3
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This resulting mixture is then put
through a centrifuge and phosphate is used to separate the oil from the seed
residues
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PHOSPHATE
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4
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Water degumming: Here water is
added. This reaction with water results in hydrated phosphatides, which can be separated by decantation or by
centrifuges.
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HYDRATED POPHATIDES
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5
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Neutralization: The resulting
product from the above steps contains fatty acids, phospholipids, pigments,
waxes, etc. These impurities are removed by using caustic soda (sodium
hydroxide) or soda ash (sodium carbonate). The refined oil is lighter in
color, less viscous and easily prone to oxidation
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CAUSTIC SODA/SODA ASH
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6
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Bleaching: This is done to remove
off coloured materials. Bleaching agents are used in this process
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BLEACHING AGENTS
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7
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Deodorization: Pressurized steam
at very high temperatures (500F) is used to remove volatile compounds which
cause off odours and taste in the final product.
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HIGH TEMPRATURE
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This process kills all the nutrition
and alters the molecules in unfavourable ways –
making it very unhealthy. This chemical process yields “oil” that is very
unhealthy, but very consistent in terms of colour, smell, odour and shelf life.
When you take a natural food product
and expose it to multiple chemical processes, how can it be natural and
healthy?
Multiple studies have linked
consumption of refined oils to many chronic diseases. Chemically extracted oils
lead to inflammation within the body, elevated blood triglycerides and an
impaired insulin response, etc.
These days Refined oils are advertised as “Vitamin +”. Oil should
be a natural product! What is added to make it Vitamin + ?
Making oil is such a simple process.
Then why do Refined oils exist?
·
Seeds such as rapeseed (canola),
soybean, corn, sunflower, safflower, etc CANNOT yield oil
through natural extraction techniques. To extract oil from these seeds, only
chemical refining process works. Since 1950s, manufacturers also started using
refining process for groundnut, sesame, coconut, etc.
·
Refined oil extraction has higher
oil yield. For example, in cold pressed method we need 2.5kg of groundnuts to
make 1 litre of groundnut oil. The refined process will extract 1 litre of oil
from 2.2 kg of groundnuts
·
Since refined oil is neutralized
for taste, colour and odour, very low quality oil seeds are used. (Cold
pressed oil has to use only good quality oil seeds; otherwise, a consumer will
indentify the lapse in quality)
·
This is the most shocking part.
Palm oil constitutes nearly 45% of edible oil consumed in India. Palm oil is
the most consumed oil. How? Nobody goes to the grocery store to buy Palm oil
and there isn’t Palm oil in grocery store shelves, yet we consume so much palm
oil. Cheap and neutral oils such as palm oil, cotton seed oil, etc. are mixed
with other oils for profits. This is a widespread and accepted “Oil
blending” practice in the oil industry.
Google it,
you will be shocked. Refined process allows this blending where consumers will
not be able to find the difference. And FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India) allows blending of oils as blending is a very common
practice
·
Refined oil has longer shelf life
as it is chemically treated. There is nothing to be spoilt in it as there is no
organic life in it
Palm oil is the most consumed oil in
India. This is because refined oils are blended with Palm oil.