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True or False Butter Ghee Lard Tallow Are Saturated Animals Fats the Kings and Queens of the Frying Pan

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Even if animal fats were the best frying fats, this wouldnt turn  doughnuts into "health food" and french fries into raw carrot sticks. If you "liked" the SuppVersity on Facebook (www.facebook.com/SuppVersity) you will probably already have seen the controversies and questions my post "Scientists on the Quest for the Perfect Frying Oil" (read more) has triggered. Eventually, it all revolves about yet another of those nutritional wisdoms thats circulating on the Internet: "Ghee, tallow, lard, ... saturated animal fats and the coconut micacle, of course, are the best and only frying oils you should use ." (next best Internet source) How on earth could F. Aladedunye, and R. Przybylski, the authors of the previously cited study even dare stating that high-oleic low-linolenic rapeseed , high-oleic sunflower oils are good frying oils? But enough of the sarcasm : In todays installment of "True or False" (read previous installments) we will...