On 03/02/2012 12:45 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:

> Note that peanut oil is high in saturated fat
> compared to most other vegetable oils (but still
> much lower than coconut oil). This makes it a
> good frying oil, but it's atherogenic (bad for
> your arteries).



It is not that bad. It is a little higher than other relatively cheap
and available oils, like olive, corn or sunflower oil, or safflower. It
is a lot lower than margarine, lard, butter, palm oil or coconut oil.