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Even though we use olive oil for everything, its best not to use it for frying

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Even though olive oil is rich in flavour and has many healthy fats and antioxidants, it's not good to use it for frying any sort of food. The reason is that olive oil has a very low smoke point and it will quickly burn. This is very unhealthy and is even linked to cancer based on certain studies. If you want to fry something, I recommend you use a high-quality canola oil or even a sunflower oil. Anything with a high smoke point that is vegetable based. Best of luck!
 
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Even though olive oil is rich in flavour and has many healthy fats and antioxidants, it's not good to use it for frying any sort of food. The reason is that olive oil has a very low smoke point and it will quickly burn. This is very unhealthy and is even linked to cancer based on certain studies. If you want to fry something, I recommend you use a high-quality canola oil or even a sunflower oil. Anything with a high smoke point that is vegetable based. Best of luck!
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Shallow quick stir-fry is ok!.... without the oil getting too hot..... that reminds me I must order rice berry oil and sunflower oil.... Yasou apo mena from Thailand Kalley Mera!
 
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Shallow quick stir-fry is ok!.... without the oil getting too hot..... that reminds me I must order rice berry oil and sunflower oil.... Yasou apo mena from Thailand Kalley Mera!
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Sunflower oil is the best!!
 
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Sunflower oil is the best!!
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Sesame oil, peanut oil,soya oil,Canola oil.... They use Palm oil here a lot... cheap!!.... Kalley Mera from Thailand..
 
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Even though olive oil is rich in flavour and has many healthy fats and antioxidants, it's not good to use it for frying any sort of food. The reason is that olive oil has a very low smoke point and it will quickly burn. This is very unhealthy and is even linked to cancer based on certain studies. If you want to fry something, I recommend you use a high-quality canola oil or even a sunflower oil. Anything with a high smoke point that is vegetable based. Best of luck!
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The low smoke point makes it tough to fry with. This is good advice! When olive oil starts to smoke, it goes rancid and tastes bitter.
 
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