Avocado oil is one of the healthiest and most delicious oils, and can be used for cooking, bread dipping, or drizzling over fresh fruits and vegetables. As extra-virgin olive oil has enjoyed a meteoric rise in popularity in recent decades, avocado oil has been gaining market share as well. The smooth, nutty, buttery flavor of avocado oil also makes a great change of pace from more traditional oils. Nutritionally, avocado oil is 100% fat –but it’s the healthy kind of fat that lowers LDL cholesterol and increases HDL cholesterol. Avocado oil contains mostly super-healthy monounsaturated fat in the form of oleic acid. For health reasons, many people are choosing healthier plant-based oils over the more traditional butter and lard. Current nutritional guidelines suggest that 30% of the caloric content of a healthy diet should be obtained from healthy unsaturated fats such as avocado oil. Saturated fats are unhealthy and what […]
