please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

[cathyjobob]

Re: please someone tell me if we can eat fried foods on the atkins diet

I think olive oil is to be avoided for deep frying. It smokes at too low a temp, so becomes unhealthy. If used in lower temp cooking, it's better... and of course raw it's just wonderful!

I believe that raising the temperature of any oil makes them similar to any saturated fat...but don't quite know the science of it.

Alton Brown just did a whole show about this on his food network program Good Eats:

He explained what each type of fat is moleculary composed of and how an unsaturated becomes a saturated and vice versa...along with information about their smoke points. Very interesting and entertaining.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show..._15897,00.html