How to Find Low Fat Substitutes for Vegetable Oil

Low fat cooking is one of the best ways to reduce the total amount of fat in your diet, especially unsaturated fat. Eating a low fat diet can dramatically affect the risks of heart disease. Methods of cooking and the types of food eaten are areas where you will reduce the fat in your diet. Here's a look at alternatives for vegetable oil in cooking.

Instructions

1. Use cooking spray to coat your pans instead of cooking in butter or regular cooking oil. Cooking sprays are available at the grocery store and now come in many flavors. Although they have some fats in the spray, you can reduce the amount by using only the minimum amount of spray needed to coat the pan.

2. Substitute Enova oil in your recipes. Although Enova is not low fat oil, its blend provides less unsaturated oil than other vegetable oils on the market. One of the main reasons for moving to a low fat diet is to reduce or eliminate the amount of unsaturated fat that our bodies digest. Less unsaturated oil is better for reducing the risk of heart disease.

3. Make use of coconut oil as a substitute for other oils in recipes. Coconut oil can be replaced volume for volume in your recipes. It is important to use pure, unrefined and unprocessed oil to obtain the benefits. Coconut oil is the only oil found in nature that the body processes as a carbohydrate and not as a fat.