Never heat pumpkin seed oil: you should know that

Pumpkin seed oil is healthy. However, only if you do not heat the cooking oil. We explain to you what effects heating has on the oil and thus on your health.

That's why you shouldn't heat pumpkin seed oil

One of the most important components of pumpkin seed oil are the unsaturated fatty acids that are essential for our health. After all, pumpkin seed oil has around 45 percent.

• As unsaturated fatty acids are good for our health, they have one major disadvantage in the kitchen.
• The higher the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in an oil, the faster the so-called smoke point occurs.
• When the pumpkin seed oil reaches the smoke point, the toxic acrolein develops. Among other things, acrolein is suspected of causing cancer, which is why scientists have been warning about it for years.
• You can easily recognize the smoke point by the fact that thick smoke plumes pull out of the pan. If this happens, you should take the pan off the stove and discard the oil as soon as it has cooled.
• Heating pumpkin seed oil not only loses its distinctive taste. The cooking oil also has a very low smoke point; it is just 120 degrees.
• For this reason, the healthy pumpkin seed oil is much better suited for the cold kitchen. In the salad, it can develop both its full taste and its health-promoting effect.