It’s a fact that you can turn the most unexciting food into a delicious treat by frying it for a few minutes in a cooking oil of your choice. Now, while this may sound like a treat for the tastebuds, it’s definitely not good news for your health and weight loss. French fries, samosas, kachoris, medu vada, poori, pakhoras, these are some of the mouth-watering dishes that are hard to resist because they have spent quality time with your cooking oil, and have come out crispy and delicious, but then these deeply-fried delicacies are not good if you are trying to lose weight because such foods absorb the fat content of oil, and take up the calorie count by several notches. Also, it’s not a good idea to continue indulging in deeply-fried foods when you go extra mile to include gluten-free products in your diet to shed extra pounds. In this post, we find out exactly why are fried foods bad for weight loss.
1. Deep Frying Alters the Chemical Structure of Oil: For deep frying, the cooking oil has to be heated to a high temperature, the chemical structure of oil gets broken, making them extremely unhealthy because they raise inflammation in the body, directly affecting weight gain. Read “Why Inflammation Might be the Reason you are Not Losing Weight” in this post.
2. Certain commercially available vegetable oils have transfat content that increases manifold when heated to high temperatures. Transfat is artificially made from vegetable oils by a process ...