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Avocado Oil Can Easily Replace Your Other Cooking Oils

by TK Sanders August 2, 2022, 4:19 pmupdated August 11, 2022, 2:54 pm 102 Views 69 Comments

Avocado oil is one of the best cooking options for your health, but often it gets overlooked for seed or vegetable oils in the home cook’s pantry. There’s a misconception that the versatile oil is too expensive or doesn’t work well in a hot pan. This is all nonsense — avocado oil works just as well as any other oil in most recipes (it can burn under extremely high temps, but the smoke point is still high!). Plus, the oleic acid helps preserve the freshness of the product longer, which greatly extends its shelf life as compared to other products that cost less up front.

More importantly, avocado oil provides tons of healthy benefits that other options can’t promise. Here’s five lesser-known benefits of avocado oil that may finally convince you to ditch seed oils for good.

Lowers Blood Pressure: Avocado oil is rich in vitamin E (which the body loves to absorb from food rather than supplements), and that keeps the blood vessels healthy by destroying free radicals. The levels of essential fatty oils in the kidneys are also improved when consuming the oil, which determines the response to the hormones that regulate your blood pressure. Avocado oil is also an anti-inflammatory which can help keep arterial walls clean.

Lowers Cholesterol: Avocado oil is high in monounsaturated fats and low in saturated fats. It also contains no cholesterol, itself, so adding this oil to your diet can help to lower low density lipid (LDL) or “bad” cholesterol levels. Diabetics especially should benefit from the switch.

Helps Fight and Prevent Cancer: One of oleic acid’s many other benefits (remember oleic acid from before? It helps keep the oil edible for longer) is lowering the risk of cancers. Omega 3 fatty acids, found in many of the world’s healthy oils, are well known anti-carcinogens that help to slow the growth of cancer cells, specifically those causing breast and colon cancer. Avocados also contain the anti-carcinogenic glutathione, which acts as a powerful antioxidant.

Detoxes Your Body: Chlorophyll from the avocado oil provides a stellar source of magnesium (which naturally removes heavy metals like mercury and lead from the liver, kidneys, brain and other organs).

Stimulates Weight Loss: Oleic acid is back again, this time helping to improve blood flow to muscles. The acid also helps stimulate enzymes that transport fat to be burned for energy. The vitamins, minerals, and monounsaturated fatty acids in avocado oil also improve digestion, helping us process food more efficiently.

Ready to try some avocado oil in your salad or in your pan? Here’s a brand we love.