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| 3243.1 | All oil is 100% fat, anyhow | CADSYS::HECTOR::RICHARDSON |  | Tue Oct 01 1991 12:05 | 7 | 
|  |     Well, all oil is 100% fat.  I don't see why sesame oil would contain
    any cholesterol at all, but I don't know about saturated fat.  You
    aren't likely to use more than a teaspoon or so of it in any recipe I
    can think of, anyhow.  Hopefully someone who is on a diet can look it
    up, or at least look up sesame seeds.
    
    /Charlotte
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| 3243.2 |  | PSW::WINALSKI | Careful with that VAX, Eugene | Tue Oct 01 1991 23:13 | 7 | 
|  | Fat content of sesame oil is 100%.  This is true of all oils, fats, and
shortening.  Cholesterol is only a problem with animal fats--all vegetable
oils are cholesterol-free.  I don't know what the ratio of saturated to
unsaturated fat is for sesame oil (being high in saturated fats is the reason
why the cholesterol-paranoid try to avoid the so-called "tropical oils").
--PSW
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| 3243.3 |  | ALLVAX::JROTH | I know he moves along the piers | Wed Oct 02 1991 07:47 | 9 | 
|  |     Unrefined sesame oil is really more of a flavoring than a cooking oil
    and I can't imagine using large quantities of it with its
    strong flavor - it shouldn't be a problem in "normal use".
    Anyway its content is 13 % saturated, 46 % monosaturated, 41 %
    polyunsaturated.  By comparison, olive oil has 10 : 82 : 8 % and
    canola has 6 : 60 : 34 %.
    - Jim
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