Rice oil, also known as rice germ oil and brown rice oil, is a kind of high-quality natural healthy oil, which is obtained by extracting and separating fat from rice. Rice oil is light yellow in color and fragrant in taste. Usually it can be used as a cold salad, and it can also be used to cook various foods like other edible oils.
Rice bran oil can be divided into rice bran oil and rice bran oil. Rice bran oil is extracted from the protective cortex of rice, such as husk, seed coat and endosperm. Mizhen oil is rice oil extracted from rice embryo, which is polished rice milled by aleurone layer in a clean workshop.
2. What are the nutritional components of rice oil?
In the process of rice finishing, the shedding of rice bran will cause the loss of most trace nutrients in rice, and rice oil is extracted from rice bran through special technology and is rich in various nutrients. The nutritional components of rice oil include:
1, oryzanol: oryzanol is the most important nutrient element of rice bran oil, and it is also a unique nutrient component of rice bran oil. It is a strong antioxidant, which can regulate autonomic nerves, improve sleep and relieve fatigue.
2, phytosterol: can help reduce the absorption of cholesterol.
3, natural vitamin E: It has a strong antioxidant effect and helps to fight aging.
4. sitosterol: It has the functions of lowering cholesterol, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, inhibiting tumor and repairing tissues.
Third, the efficacy and role of rice oil
Rice oil is rich in nutrition, high in smoke point and less in cooking. The ratio of saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids is close to 1: 1: 1. It is a healthy edible oil with multiple functions:
1, preventing hyperlipidemia
Rice oil contains many essential nutrients, especially oryzanol and vitamin E, which can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol, accelerate the decomposition and metabolism of cholesterol in the human body, and play an important role in preventing the increase of blood lipid and arteriosclerosis.
Step 2 lose weight
Rice oil is a low-calorie edible oil. Usually people will not absorb too much fat and cholesterol after eating, and it contains a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which can accelerate the burning of fat in the human body and inhibit the absorption of fat.
3. Clearing intestines and detoxifying
As a kind of natural oil, rice oil not only tastes fragrant, but also lubricates the intestines, cleans up the garbage and toxins accumulated on the intestinal wall, accelerates the metabolism of the body, cleans the intestines and detoxifies, and also prevents constipation, which is also very helpful for weight loss.
4, delay aging
Unsaturated fatty acids contained in rice oil can accelerate the metabolism of lipid peroxide in human body. Vitamin E contained in rice oil is a natural antioxidant, which can improve the cellular activity of human tissues, reduce the occurrence of oxidation reactions in human body, remove free radicals in human body, improve the activity of various organs of human body, and help to delay various aging symptoms.