High oleic oil: advantages over conventional, benefit and harm, reviews

Vegetable oil occupies one of the places of honor in the kitchen of every mistress. And the most popular is the product obtained from sunflower seeds. Sunflower oil contains vitally important vitamins and minerals that the body needs to function properly. This product stimulates the metabolism and has a beneficial effect on the work of the intestines, the nervous system, improves memory. A variety of sunflower oil is highly oleic. About what it is, what its advantages over the ordinary and what benefits and harm the body, we will tell in our article.

What is high-oleic oil?

Sunflower oil is a valuable product of sunflower processing. Without it, it's hard to imagine modern cooking. Depending on the content of fatty acids, sunflower seeds and the oil that is produced from them are 4 kinds: high-oleic, medium-oleic, high-liner, high-stearic. Raw materials for each of them are obtained using traditional breeding methods.

High oleic oil is a product with a high content of oleic monounsaturated acid (80-90%). Saturated fatty acids make up at least 10% of the volume. By its characteristics, this type of oil can be compared with olive, despite the fact that its price is lower by 3-4 times. Highleaf oil has neutral taste, light yellow color (practically transparent) and does not contain trans fats. In the food industry it has been used for more than 10 years.

Advantages over conventional sunflower oil

High oleic oil has significant advantages over conventional, obtained in the traditional way from sunflower seeds:

1. The main thing for which this oil is valued is a high content of oleic acid, the amount of which in the composition reaches 90%.
2. In high-oleic oil of oleic acid is contained even more than in olive (80-90% against 71%) and ordinary sunflower (80-90% vs. 35%).
3. This product is ideal for frying, unlike most other types of oils. The fact is that it does not form trans fats, which are harmful to human health.
4. It has a neutral taste. Due to this property, such a product is suitable for people who do not like the taste of unrefined sunflower oil and olive oil.
5. Due to the content of polyunsaturated omega-3-acid, the shelf life of such a product is greater than that of other types of vegetable oils.

In general, it can be said that a product with a high oleic acid content can be placed above the nutritional value above the olive oil, although its cost is an order of magnitude lower.

High oleic oil: benefit and harm to the body

Now let's talk about the useful properties of this product. They are much more than traditional sunflower.

Highly oleic vegetable oil is useful for the body as follows:

• High content of vitamin E, which is considered a natural antioxidant that destroys free radicals, which are often the cause of the formation of cancerous tumors;
• Low content of saturated fats harmful to the body (10%);
• Omega-3-acid, which it contains, helps reduce cholesterol in the body, strengthen immunity, protects cell membranes and internal organs from destruction;
• Omega-9-acid normalizes the work of the heart and strengthens blood vessels;
• Beneficial effects on the work of the intestine and the entire digestive system;
• The presented oil is absorbed by the body faster than other species, therefore it is considered more useful.

Harm to the body can bring only excessive consumption of vegetable oil. In the rest it can be called an ideal product for both pure consumption and frying.

Popular oil producers

The most famous manufacturers of high-oleic oil in Russia are:

1. Refined deodorized high-oleic premium oil Aston. The manufacturer indicates on the packaging that this product has 4 times more frying cycles than the usual sunflower. The smoke formation point is 260 ° C.
2. Highly oleic oil of the brand "Natural Products", "Krasnodar Elite" - has a neutral taste, contains 80% of Omega-9-acids and can withstand up to 10 hours of frying. All this information is on the manufacturer's packaging.
3. "Olej Lefkadii" - it is made by way of cold pressing from high-oleic sunflower varieties.
4. "Rossiyanka" - produced in the city of Atkarsk Saratov region. It has the ability to maintain taste and color during heat treatment 3 times more than other types of oil.

Customer Reviews

Based on customer feedback, we can say with confidence that high-oleic oil has much more advantages compared to conventional sunflower oil. At a price, it costs much more than olive, and in quality it does not concede. It can be used both as a dressing for salads, and for frying. Manufacturers of this product argue that when frying in deep fat it can be used up to 5 times without the formation of dangerous carcinogens.

The taste of high oleic oil is rather neutral, gentle and pleasant. It does not burn and does not smoke in a frying pan, preserving all the benefits of fried foods. Disadvantages of this oil buyers have not found.

How much is?

The cost of oil, with a high content of oleic acid, is higher than usual, however, like its benefits. High oleic oil at a price can be compared with cheap olive oil. Its cost is 140 rubles. For a glass bottle of 0.5 liters. Buy this oil in all major supermarkets in the country.