--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity <no_re...@...> > Of course, ghee is 100% saturated fat and arguably worse than butter.
I love ghee and always make some for my kitchen, although I use the virtuous olive and canola oils more. Some things fried in ghee are really divine. Northern Indians eat a lot of ghee but in the South they use a lot of coconut oil and mustard oils. I am heavily influenced by this book: Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, With Recipes http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Appreciation-Misunderstood-Ingredient-Recipes/dp/1580089356 http://tinyurl.com/4zo5hr She includes some interesting new medical views on what she considers to be our unjustified fear of animal fats. wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, I am the eternal <L.Shaddai@> > wrote: > > > > There's also this Indian belief that ghee one of the most valuable > > things on earth. Ghee is of course good for you. Except there are > > loads of ex-pat Indians from the West Indies to the US who have bad > > heart problems because of the ghee. > > > > Now get this. We asked many times about the ghee and sugar in Amrit. > > We were told that rock sugar has a special quality, making it OK for > > diabetics and ghee had a different quality than butter, making it OK > > for people with cholesterol/heart problems. IRRC there is now a low > > sugar, low fat Amrit available, finally. > > > > > > Of course, ghee is 100% saturated fat and arguably worse than butter. > > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8910075 > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2887943 > > ". . .study investigated the hypothesis that ghee, a clarified butter > product prized in Indian cooking, contains cholesterol oxides and > could therefore be an important source of dietary exposure to > cholesterol oxides and an explanation for the high atherosclerosis > risk. Substantial amounts of cholesterol oxides were found in ghee > (12.3% of sterols), but not in fresh butter, by thin-layer and > high-performance-liquid chromatography. Dietary exposure to > cholesterol oxides from ghee may offer a logical explanation for the > high frequency of atherosclerotic complications in these Indian > populations." >
