What is the healthiest cooking oil?

I heard it's olive oil, but it has a strong taste that I don't want to interfere with the flavor of my food.What is the healthiest cooking oil?
Extra virgen olive oil and it does not interfere with the taste of food.What is the healthiest cooking oil?
nO thank you for still being able to call it virgen. Like a virgen, you read for the very first time. Report Abuse

Whoops. I just realized I accidentally said “extra virgin”, when I meant to say “extra light”…





I like this kind: http://www.filippoberio.com/Products/ExtraLight.asp





BTW: After using the Enova for a bit longer, I’ve noticed that it has a slight fishy off-taste for some reason… Report Abuse

There are several healthy oils...they are:


olive oil


canola oil


sunflower oil


safflower oil


flaxseed





These all have essential fatty acids %26amp; vitamin E. I use extra virgin olive for most cooking, in pasta, and stir-frys. If you want something mild for cooking, you can try canola oil.
NNOOO!!!! I keep hearing olive oil, which is not bad for you, but it is not the lowest in fat.





Rapeseed oil, also known as Canola Oil, has half the saturated fat of olive oil. It also has slightly less total fat and, like olive oil, is very high in the good fat (monounsaturated fat).





Both are very good for you in moderate amounts, and are much better for you than butter or other fats that you can cook with. Also, canola has a much milder flavor. One commentator said that extra virgin olive oil did not give flavor to the food; I have found that it does give a subtle (but noticeable) flavor to food. Canola, however, is very mild and adds no flavor.
Choosing Healthy Cooking Oils





Fats are an essential part of our diet—but some are “good” and some are “bad”.





Olive oil is one of the healthiest of oils. It has a high percentage of monounsaturated fat, a good fat, and a lower percentage of saturated and polyunsaturated fats than vegetable oils. Unlike oils processed from hard seeds with heat and chemicals, oils from the fruit of the olive are soft pressed and healthier.





Peanut oil is more heat tolerant than olive and some other oils and is suitable for frying. The peanut taste of the oil complements some foods well. Peanut oil is higher in monounsaturated fats than most vegetable oils.





Canola oil is neutral flavored and is suitable for frying. It is relatively high in monounsaturated fat and has some omega-3 fatty acids. The safest canola oil is organic, expeller-pressed available in the health food section of the grocery store.





While we recommend olive, peanut, and canola oil, some experts don't. Dr. Andrew Weil, the author of Eating Well for Optimal Living, does not endorse peanut oil because of possible harsh processing and because some peanut oil may be tainted with a carcinogenic mold that frequents peanuts.





We suggest that you read labels regularly noting the types and amounts of fats present in the articles that you buy. The nutritional information table will tell you what is measured as a serving size and how much saturated or polyunsaturated fat is present—the bad guys. Read in the ingredient listing to discover the presence of hydrogenated fats—another unhealthy fat. You will find that many processed foods contain hydrogenated fat, including most baking mixes found in stores.
Hands down, extra virgin olive oil.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil Cold Pressed - Check the bottle to make sure it says cold pressed!!
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
It's olive oil. WOW! I'm the 100th idiot who didn't read the above answers and kept giving the same answer over and over again.





So let me reiterate:





It's olive oil.





Did you get it?





OLIVE!





Extra Virgin Olive Oil.





EVOO.





See how cute it is when abbreviated? Think how cute it will be in your food.





Man, oh man Yahoo admins, I want to cook you in EVOO to preserve your flavor.





Why, oh why do you keep picking these food questions? WHY?
Olive oil
It is Olive Oil though, but if you don't like it try cooking with butter.
olive oil
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Rachel Raye from the food network calls it evoo. That's extra virgin olive oil. It's the first press from the olives.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Canola Oil, My dad is Health Concious, which is a Good Thing, so My Mom uses Canola oil to Cook
OLIVE OIL BY FAR
Try Canola Oil. It's not strong, and leaves your food tasting natural.
You could use different brands of olive oil. They make different types of it so the taste is different than other brands. Some brands make oil with not a strong flavor.
coconut oil my mom uses it in stuff and you cant taste the difference and it is VERY HEALTHY
Extra virgin olive oil does not taste like anything ;) I prefer the Filippo Berio brand.





But, I would go with Enova Oil, it is a new product made of a combination of ';healthy'; oils (in other words, it has a good balance of mono- and polyunsaturated fats, with little saturated fat and no trans fat.) and less is (supposedly) stored in the body as fat, do to the fact that it contains more diacylglycerols than triacylglycerols. They have it right next to the other oils at my local grocery store. Their website is EnovaOil.com
olive oil
Olive oil
Olive oil, i think!
Extra Virgin Olive Oil is best as an ingredient in recipes.





For frying things Canola Oil is best because it does not break down into harmful components, plus it is one of the 'healthy' oils.





Also good for various uses are Sunflower Oil and Safflower Oil.





Corn Oil is okay unless it has been hydrogenated as is the case with margarines.





All hydrogenated oils and margarines are bad for you.





Dr. Mirkin agrees. He says ';The Best Margarine is No Margarine,'; quite frequently on his radio show.





I left the technical stuff out, but this answer is based on it. I was once a writer in the area of Health and Nutrition.





Stay away from LARD and animal fats and oils. The latter have some very limited medicinal uses, not so much for nutrition.





You can get Refried Beans which are not made with LARD if you look around. May be slightly more expensive.
extra virgin olive oil, and the second is nut oil (i don't know what kind of nut if made from)
it's canola oil
I think that it is cold pressed olive oil.
Extra virgin olive oil is very healthy when not heated but IT IS NOT SUITABLE FOR COOKING.


Check out this website.


http://www.mercola.com/2003/oct/15/cooki…
Check out www.nutiva.com and click under cocnut oil. They will tell you what oil to use in different things and with different things. Good and Healthy cooking.
I was wondering the same thing a while back and did some research. Did you know there is something called ';macadamia nut oil.'; See link below. It is really quite bland and adds little taste to the food. I am not a seller of this item.
olive oil is definetly right. if it changes the flavor trying using vegteble oil, though you will find that the the quality is nowhere neer that of olive oil. try extra virgen olive oil for the bes result