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What’s Cookin’?

Dow's products and technology are all around—driving improvement in agriculture

and water treatment, to better building products for our homes and leading edge

electronic technologies. Through "Discover Dow" we hope you will learn more about

the way Dow touches and enhances lives throughout the world.

any restaurants, food manufacturers and 

ganizations have switched from partially 

ydrogenated oils to Omega-9 Oils from

ow AgroSciences — in some instances,

ducing total trans and saturated fats by

much as 80 percent! Here are just a few

at have made the change:

A&WCanada

KFCCanada

MemorialSloan-KetteringCancerCenter

PopWeavermicrowavepopcorn

RushUniversityMedicalCenter

TacoBell

Healthy vs. Unhealthy Cooking oils contain both good and 

bad fats that can affect your health

in different ways.Oilisauniversalingredientthat

unitescooksaroundtheworld,butdifferentculturespreferdifferentkinds.IntheMediterranean,it’scommonlyoliveoil;whileintheSouthPacific,it’scoconutoil.Oilscanaddrichflavortofood,buttheycanalsocomewithasideofunwanted,unhealthyfats.It’simportanttoremember,though,thatnotallfatsarecreatedequal—therearegoodfatsandbadfats—andDowprefersto

focusonthegood.Omega-9OilsfromDowAgroSciencesweredevelopedfromcanolaandsunflowerseedstohelpmakecookinghealthier.Theseoilshavezerotransfatandthelowestlevelofsaturatedfatamongallcookingoils.And,asanaddedbonus,they’realsofullofheart-healthymonounsaturatedfat!Thistypeoffat

canhelpreducecholesterol,aswellalowertheriskforheartdiseaseanddiabetes.AccordingtotheNew Engla Journal of Medicine,theeliminationtransfatfromfoodscanreducetherofheartdiseaseby23percent.

Butifthey’rethathealthy,theycan’ttastegood,right?Notatall!Omega-OilsfromDowAgroSciencesdon’tlefoodtastingheavyandgreasy,likesoilsdo.Theygivefoodalight,cleant

andthat’swhychefsandcooksprefeOmega-9Oils.Infact,astudybyJeffGross&Associatesatteststhattheshealthyoilstastejustasgood,ifnotbetterthanotheroils.AdultsandteeinthestudyactuallypreferredFrencfriescookedinOmega-9Oilsoverthinsoybeanoil.

•Monounsaturated Fats: Sometimes

calledomega-9s,thesefatscan

increasetheamountof“good”

cholesterol(HDL)inthebody,which

reducestheriskofheartdisease.

• Polyunsaturated Fats: Alsocalled

omega-3andomega-6fattyacids,

theseareessentialfattyacidsthatcan’tbeproducedbythehumanbody,

buttheyareanimportantingredient

tomaintainingahealthyheart.

• Trans Fat:Thebyproductofadding

hydrogentoliquidvegetableoils,trans

fatraises“bad”cholesterol(LDL)and

lowersthelevelofHDL.

• Saturated Fat:Liketransfat,saturated

fatcontributestotheriskof

cardiovasculardisease,strokeand

cancerbecauseitraisesthelevel

ofLDL.

Converting toOmega-9 Oils

Dow Develops the ‘Next Generation’ of Healthy Oi