Western diet and Asian diet
By scheng1
@scheng1 (24649)
Singapore
February 14, 2016 6:34am CST
One of the main differences between Western diet and Asian diet is the oil used.
For us Asian, we use vegetable oil for cooking.
There are many types of vegetable oils selling in the supermarket.
We have palm oil, soya bean oil, rice bran oil, olive oil, corn oil, canola oil, sunflower oil and others.
I normally buy olive oil, especially the extra virgin olive oil.
We do not deep fried chicken wings at home, and extra virgin olive oil is good for soup.
I buy rice bran oil after getting a sample a few months back.
Rice bran oil is good for stir fried, even deep fried.
Western diet does not use as much vegetable oil, especially in cooking.
Many people use butter instead of vegetable oil when they want to cook meat.
I think when oil is used in cooking, and in daily consumption, it is best to stick to vegetable oils.
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13 responses
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
14 Feb 16
Not sure on the rice bran, but we in my part of the West have every one of the oils you mentioned. Just about every house hold in my state has vegetable oil. Butter is only used for certain foods as is olive oil. You can't just lump the whole West together since we are many different countries with different cultures and traditions.
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@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
15 Feb 16
Olive oil makes an excellent skin and hair treatment with essential oils added. I think it smells bad when being cooked with though, especially with meat.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
15 Feb 16
@cupkitties Olive oil is good when you want to steam fish or boil vegetables.
Some forms of olive oil is good for stir fried too.
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@quarternoes (236)
• Indianapolis, Indiana
14 Feb 16
Olive oil works great on steaks and other meats cooked this way. We do use a lot of that here.
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@alchemistrx (2547)
• Philippines
15 Feb 16
We use olive oil for cooking mostly.
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@youless (112515)
• Guangzhou, China
15 Feb 16
It seems that today the butter is not often used in cooking, especially for families. I guess the westerners like to use olive oil. Here there are many kinds of oils, but it seems that in my family we like to use the peanut oil because it smells well. And there is an oil called tea seeds oil. This is a new kind of oil and it is very healthy but quite expensive, too.
@silvermist (19702)
• India
14 Feb 16
@scheng1 You are right.By the way do you use coconut oil?
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@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
15 Feb 16
In the Western diet more and more Olive oil is being used. You generalize too much so your discussions aren't sound when you try to show something. I don't remember the last time I used plain vegetable oil for cooking.
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@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
15 Feb 16
More people use olive oil for salad, but not for cooking meat.
I doubt if you use vegetable oil for steak or chicken.
It is a fact that westerners do not generally use vegetable oil in cooking. Definitely not for fish, steak or chicken.
For Asians, it is a given that some form of vegetable oil will be used.
@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
15 Feb 16
We use coconut oil and palm oil at home. Sometimes, we also get canola oil.
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@petatonicsca (7070)
• Japan
15 Feb 16
I use mostly olive oil. Canola oil is popular here too, and cheaper since they grow canola in Japan (and eat it as a vegetable too).
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