Vegtable or sunflower oil which is healthier/better for cooking?

Answer 1

I always use olive oil. It is the best and now days it is so cheap you can get even extra virgin for not much money, so why not use it for all your cooking? If it is too heavy tasting for you, you can also use Canola oil. Both are great sources of Omega 3 and do not have trans fats. If you use veg oils make sure they have no trans fat, hydrogenated fats or partially hydrogenated fats. This makes them NOT shelf stable, so keep in the fridge. (do not keep olive oil in the fridge though, it will thicken up). If you can, buy your oils in small-ish quantities so that you are always using fresh oil. oils are perishable foods. It is when industry made them non-perishable that trans fats were created. Look up trans fats and oils on the web, there is lots of info out there. Peace

Answer 2

depends, neither are really about health, they are more about cooking and having different uses, one may be better than the other at one thing and the other at another thing, I dont use oil but I would have thought vegetable oils are better for stews and stuff where you fry up onions for the sauce first, and sunflower oils to be good with chips.

Know they are likely to taste different, only cos my mum only uses olive oil as she cannot stand the taste of any of the other oils.

try a website devolted to cooking and ask the chef there, or try bbc.co.uk which I think has some type of cooking question and answer page.

Answer 3

Food grade sunflower oil shouldn't cause any problems. Sunflower oil is readily available in any grocery store. Walnut oil may be more difficult to find, but would be in the gourmet baking section of a grocery store. Castor Oil (made from castor beans) would be found in the drug section of a grocery store or at a drugstore. It is also meant to be ingested and would be safe for topical use. Do any of these work? I doubt it. Excessive oil is usually present in skin problems like acne. If you have dry skin, there are plenty of moisturizers available.

Answer 4

If it was for a chip pan or something that used alot of oil id go for sunflower oil. but otherwise olive oil all the way. it can take a bit of time to get used to but its much more healthier and if you tried to go back to veg or sunflower afterwards they would taste like frying with wax crayons.

Answer 5

There are many different types and often have different uses. It depends on what you are using them for.Olive oil is healthier than vegetable oil in general. Sesame seed oil is very good for stir frying though

Answer 6

Both are very good oils as long as they are good quality. It comes down to cooking temperatures which is where olive oil falls down. It isn't as tolerant of the high cooking temperatures and can produce nasty by-products at frying temperatures

Answer 7

Both are usually the same thing.A good tip is to look in the ingredients.But vegetable oil(especially soy)is better 4 cooking.

Answer 8

I prefer Olive Oil so does Popeye

Answer 9

It depends on what you are using the oil for (ex. sauteeing vs. deep frying). Here is an article w/ a grid of different oils & their uses: http://www.ehow.com/how_109845_choose-cooking-oils.html

Articles about cooking oils & health: http://life.familyeducation.com/foods/nutrition/36579.html
http://www.tosasoft.com/cookingoils/
http://www.healthcastle.com/cooking-oils.shtml
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/ara-heartoils.html

Answer 10

in terms of saturated/unsaturate/polyunsaturated / trans fats etc, sunflower oil is much better than vegetable, but olive oil-especially extra Virgin is even better so use that where you can.