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  • xuxebiko@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: If you make popcorn in a pot on the stove, the oil to use is ghee.
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    1 year ago

    India does not have a ‘large vegan populatiion’, it has a large ‘vegetarian’ population with milk, yoghurt (we call it curd/ dahi), paneer (cottage cheese), and ghee a part of the daily diet. Vegetable fat/ oils used in cooking instead of ghee are usually either raw or filtered or refined. Interestified vegetable oil/ fat is a relatively new product and is used by FMCG co.s as a replacement for palm oil in their products. Interestified vegetable oil also tastes nothing like ghee. Don’t take my word for it, try it out yourself.

    Any Indian touting vegan ghee will get laughed out of their home and get told to use the real thing.

  • xuxebiko@kbin.socialtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: If you make popcorn in a pot on the stove, the oil to use is ghee.
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    1 year ago

    None of them are ghee. They’re all interesterified vegetable fat/ oils with ghee flavour added calling themselves “vegan ghee” to con the gulllible.

    There’s no harm in being vegan, but it is foolish to fall for unhealthy products because they brand themelves as vegan/ vegetable-based.
    Stick to vegetable oils but ffs don’t call them ghee.

    Interesterified oils increase heart-disease risk by lowering HDL (good) cholesterol and raising LDL (bad) cholesterol, (like trans fats do). And they increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by raising fasting blood-glucose levels and decreasing insulin response. They also increase liver cellular stress markers.

    Look up the effects of interesterified vegetable fat/ oils on a search engine of your choice and then read their labels before recommending them.