so you've started a carnivore diet and you've got some questions
let me guess one of them is what oils can I cook with can I use olive oil
butter no oil in this video I'm gonna let you know what oils to use on a
carnivore diet and why these oils are optimal for cooking not only on a
carnivore diet but no matter how you eat
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where I share new posts every single day the carnivore diet is classified as
eating only foods from the animal kingdom this includes all type of meat
all type of fish and all animal products such as eggs so what does that leave us
to cook with I think most of us are under the impression that olive oil is
the best oil to use for cooking but olives don't come from animals obviously
so what do we use instead I'm going to break this video up into three parts the
oils you should use the oils you should not use and oils that are not
technically card four but that are still probably okay what you want to be
cooking with on a carnivore diet is animal fat this includes things such as
tallow which is beef fat lard which is pork fat duck fat bacon grease and any
other type of fat that comes from an animal you can also cook with dairy so
this means butter and ghee if you aren't familiar with what ghee is butter is
made up of butter fat and milk protein and ghee is only butter fat because of
this ghee has a higher smoke point and is better for high heat cooking when
compared to butter I have a whole video on the similarities and differences
between butter and key so I will link that up above and you can check it out
afterwards these are the main types of fat you want to be cooking with on a
carnivore diet as you can see they all either come from animals or from animal
products the other thing you will notice about these oils is that they are all
solid at room temperature this is a characteristic of them being made up of
mainly saturated fat now before you got the idea of eating so much saturated fat
and assume this diet will clog your arteries hear me at first off the notion
that saturated fat consumption clogs our arteries is based off of theory and not
off of evidence there is no solid scientific data showing this to be the
case and actually there are rumors that the upper limit on saturated fat is
going to be dropped this year when the Dietary Guidelines are updated so
hopefully this puts your mind at least a little bit at rest it is actually a
really big shame that saturated fat has been demonized in the way that it has
because this type of fat is the best for cooking it's even better than
monounsaturated fat which is the type of fat that olive oil is mainly made up of
saturated fat is more stable than other types of fat it can resist more heat
light and oxygen this means it is harder for these fats to oxidize which is a
good thing because oxidized fats are extremely harmful to consume oils not to
use so when you are doing a carnivore diet for the main part you do not want
to be consuming any oils that come from plants these include oils such as canola
oil soybean oil corn oil grapeseed oil safflower oil sunflower oil cottonseed
oil did I miss anything these all fall under the category of vegetable oil so
you don't want to be consuming anything that
labeled vegetable oil as well now it isn't just on a carnivore diet that you
want to be avoiding these as I mentioned before saturated fat is the best type of
fat to use for cooking because it can resist a lot before it oxidizes
polyunsaturated fat which is the main type of fat in the oils I just mentioned
is the opposite it is extremely fragile and sensitive to heat light and oxygen
if you want to know more about vegetable oil and how it is harming our health
check out this video afterwards so yes avoid these when you're eating a carb or
diet but no matter where your health journey takes you if your keto carnivore
or eating any other way you want to be avoiding these oils full stop oils that
are probably okay alright so now on to the gray area the oils I am about to
talk about they are not technically carnivore they do not come from animals
but they are not as toxic as vegetable oils are these are oils such as olive
oil avocado oil coconut oil and palm oil these oils all come from fruit and
that's probably the easiest way to remember them they are more resistant to
oxidation than vegetable oil is as I said they are not technically carnivore
but depending on how sensitive you are you can probably include them or at
least add them in at some point and see how you react
that said if you are doing the carnivore diet because you suffer from an
autoimmune disease you're probably best just sticking to animal fat and those
are the oils that are and are not suitable for a carnivore diet let me
know in the comments down below what your favorite oil or fat is to cook with
and if you have any other questions pertaining to the carnivore diet that
you would like me to make a video on leave those suggestions down below as
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