Vegetable fats and oilsLike some of us learned in Chemistry
class, fat is supposed to be more healthy the more liquid it is,
therefore it’s commonly believed that all vegetable oils are
healthy. And hey, they’re from plants, too! So this sounds about
right. It is actually a general rule that the fat is more
healthy the more liquid it is, since the “healthy” double bonds
in the unsaturated (or good, if you will) kind of fat will
decrease the melting point. However, what most people forget, is
that ordinary butter can be liquid too, if it’s just heated a
little. The “oil” used for frying in fast food restaurants, is
most commonly palm oil, an almost purely saturated (unhealthy)
oil. It’s semi-solid at room temperature, but is of course
liquid when heated and used for frying, and it’s certainly not
healthy. If another more healthy oil had been chosen for frying,
those tasty fries wouldn’t have been bad for you. Not at all, as
long as the potatoes are of good quality. “Then why don’t the
fast food restaurants use