While the processed variety can be quite bad for your body, especially over the long term, organic or natural ghee is superb in several regards. With the latter, you can actually receive all the amazing benefits people say ghee contains without having to worry about consuming the negatives.
Once thought to be saturated and therefore unhealthy, ghee seems to be breaking the rules and showing that it is healthier than people at first assumed. In fact, ghee is one of the top healthiest fats to have in your kitchen.
You also do not need to stick ghee in the fridge. It can take quite a while for it to spoil. In fact ghee can stay edible for about a hundred years even without being subject to specialized storage steps.
Does organic ghee exist, though? Or is it all a myth? Instead of delving into a detailed exploration, we rather the benefits speak for them. Check out the goodies that natural ghee brings to your life; and you are the judge.
- Vitamins A & E (Oil Soluble)
Vitamin A (Retinoid) and Vitamin E are both excellent sources of nutrition and in the case of organic ghee, oil soluble.
- Vit A: Improved vision, healthy immune system, and enhanced cell growth are some of the most prominent benefits of this vitamin.
- Retinoid is a sub-type of Vit A found in animal products. The plant version is Beta-Carotene. You will find that ghee is rich in the former.
- Vit E: Healthy skin, eyes, and immune system, not to mention cell damage protection and antioxidant quantity are some of the most prominent benefits of this vitamin.
- Known for its preventative role in cataracts, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer vitamin E is also known to alleviate cystic fibroses and digestive problems.
With such power packed in organic ghee, this one point alone is sufficient reason to adopt this food in your diet.
- Digestion
It helps with all things to do with digestion and the tract associated with it.
- Ghee is essentially oil but unlike other oils it contains a good quantity of Butyric Acid. The short chain fatty acid is made when ‘good’ bacteria in your intestines converts fibre into butyric acid. They use what’s produced to make energy and impart strength to the walls of the intestine.
- Basically, your body is making its own ‘organic ghee’, and increasing that amount via food only adds to your health.
Bear in mind that an unhealthy digestive tract is a stranger to butyric acid.
- High Smoke Point
This is an important point. At 250 °C (482 °F), ghee has a high smoke point. What does this mean?
- All other edible oils, when cooked or fried, alone or with other foods, break down into free radicals; which are extremely harmful. Ghee does not display this behaviour.
- The chemical make-up of oils changes when they reach a certain temperature. Since oils are a motley mix of fatty acids, what they change into is not always wholesome.
- Increasing heat breaks oils down into individual fatty acids, including releasing molecules of glycerine.
- Remember that eye-irritating smoke and strange smell when fatty acids are being cooked in the kitchen? That’s the glycerine molecules further breaking into a substance called Acrolein.
- If oil passes its particular smoke point, it loses not just its flavour but its nutritional value as well.
Thanks to a high smoke point, ghee retains both its flavour and nutrition potential, adding to its reputation as the healthiest fat of them all.
- K2& CLA
One is a vitamin and the other is an acid, and they both work to promote some of the best health potential a food can contain.
- While vitamin K1 caters to blood clotting, the K2 vitamin works on a synergistic basis with other nutritive substances like vitamin D and calcium and moves them around your body to where they are most needed. It is best known for calcium distribution for healthy bones and teeth.
- Conjugated Linoleic Acid or CLA is known for its anti-viral and antioxidant properties. This compound can only be gotten from grass-fed cows, making organic ghee a rich source of CLA.
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