Oils

There're several choices of healthy oils to use in daily cooking. I read that olive oil is great when you don't cook with it. It's perfect to drizzle on salads. However, if you're going to cook, specially Indian style, you want something with a higher smoke point. Once the smoke point is reached, free radicals start forming, and it's really bad for you. We alternate between grape seed oil, sesame oil, and canola oil. Sesame oil works better with Indian foods, and canola oil, until you get used to it, has a very slightly fishy odor to it. Grape seed oil is amazing in that it only has 1 g saturated fat. It doesn't have enough monounsaturated fat either, and you need it. Remember that 30% of your daily cals need to come from fat. You don't need saturated fat after the age of 2, according to western scientists (Ayurveda disagrees, telling people to have cups and cups of ghee daily - and I am only exaggerating mildly.)

Oh, and we store ALL oils in the frig. Reduces their oxidization rate.