Cooking tips
By cooking with these oils, you’ll get all the benefits associated with unsaturated fats AND you’ll squeeze saturated fats out of your diet. Here's how to enjoy fat while still protecting your health:
- Limit your saturated fat intake by consuming less animal fat and palm and coconut oils.
- Use lower fat versions of dairy products
- Choose lean meats and remove visible fat and skin from meat.
- Use dairy cream alternatives that contain milk fat (lactose) instead of vegetable fat.
- Replace products rich in saturated fat with those rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- Reduce your consumption of invisible fat from products such as fried foods and bakery products, they contain large amounts of saturated and trans fats.
- Use less fat in cooking and steam, grill and bake foods instead of frying or roasting them.
- Look for plant sterol-enriched products – delicious as well as effectively lowering your cholesterol levels.
Many Unilever products use these good oils, see the brands below.
It's important to remember that a diet high in fat of any kind is rich in calories and can contribute to unwanted weight gain.
