my goal is low carbs, low fat and high protein while also maintaining a good quality of my food ex: switching refined carbs for complex carbs like whole wheat, and switching industrial and trans fat for complex fats like mono and polyunsaturated fats.
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Olive oil is a healthy fat and I use it for everything in my day, I pan fry omelettes in olive oil, I use olive oil in a pot when Im popping popcorn kernels, those should be healthy enough but what im curious about is pan frying deli meats in olive oil. It is similar to how people cook bacon, I’m not sure if this is good for me, while olive oil is good, deli meats seem to have a lot of salt and fat in them that negate the good aspects of pan frying them in olive oil. Any alternatives for healthy breakfast meats? or is this fine?
From the studies I have read olive oil is healthy because its unprocessed compared to other oils, but like all unsaturated fats they have low stability and will degrade when in contact with heat and light. This degradation forms aldehydes which are the main danger of unsaturated fats, and because of this when you cook olive oil you lose many of its benefits compared to other unsaturated oils. Saturated fats on the other hand have stronger chemical bonds are rarely degrade, such that I would recommend that if you have to fry that you use saturated fats.