Remember, this is the danger of used cooking oil for body health

KOMPAS.com – Cooking oil has been getting the attention of many parties recently, because it was rare and the price then soared. As a result, the issue of using cooking oil.

Cooking oil continues to be hunted because it is needed in daily activities. Rare and expensive cooking oil it is not wise to make people use waste oil.

What is cooking oil?

cooking oil is cooking oil that has been used repeatedly, or used cooking oil. The use of used cooking oil repeatedly can be harmful to human health.

Researcher at the Advanced Chemical Research Center of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Yan Irawan said used cooking oil can increase cholesterol due to its free fatty acid content. Cholesterol can increase the risk of heart disease.

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“(The dangers of cooking oil or used frying oil) cholesterol caused by the content of free fatty acids. Which in the end is at risk for heart disease, “said Yan when contacted Kompas.comFriday (25/3/2022).

The process of heating cooking oil for a long time or repeatedly will cause oxidation and polymerization of fatty acids which produce free radicals of peroxide compounds that are toxic to body cells.

Launch Kompas.comMay 9, 2020, researchers from Brandeis University, Waltham, United States Kenneth C. Hayes et al in European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology (2007) revealed that the use of used cooking oil repeatedly will increase the peroxide radical group that binds oxygen.

This will result in oxidation of the human body’s cell tissue, which if it continues, it can lead to cancer.

Used cooking oil is cooking oil used to fry food ingredients in one frying process, then stored for some time and reused for frying.

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