OILS

Here’s a little bit about how we chose to cook our food using oils.

As you know we love our fried farm eggs on top of the Mexi cali bowl, an open faced sandwich, pizza, waffle well pretty much anything. Fried food can be bad for you but it does not have to be. It comes down to what oil you cook your food with.

Different oils have different benefits and also work differently at different temperatures.  For example Olive oil can provide healthy unsaturated fats when in raw form, but is very sensitive to heat and will easily turn into saturated (unhealthy) fat when heated up. We use extra virgin organic olive oil in our dressings which provides great unsaturated fats for our bodies (we all need those good fats in our diet).  Our bodies can not absorb vitamin A,D, K and E without unsaturated fats. Raw olive oil also provides us with antioxidants, vitamin K and a small amount of omegas 3 & 6.

When we fry our food here at Harvest cafe we mostly use organic coconut oil. Coconut oil has multiple medium-chain triglycerides (MCT chains) due to that it has an higher heating point and can stay in its unsaturated state even though it is at a high temperature.

Sometimes we find coconut oil taking over the flavor for our savory dishes so for our eggs we use safflower oil.  Safflower oil has monounsaturated fat chains.  Monounsaturated fats are good fats and stay that way when safflower oil is heated up.

Other oils that are good to cook with at high temperatures include avocado oil, grape seed oil and sunflower oils (make sure they are organic and GMO free).  We highly recommend you make this simple change in your own homes.  Cheers!