Question

Why are vegetable oils healthy as compared to vegetable ghee?

Answer 1

We know that both vegetable oils and ghee are the carbon compounds. They both belong to the lipid region of the biomolecules. In order to answer this question, we must know that this question is based on saturation and unsaturation of carbon compounds.

Complete answer:
Let us understand this question in complete detail.
We know that vegetable oil contains unsaturated hydrocarbons which means they contain only single bonded carbon atoms, but on the other side vegetable ghee contains saturated hydrocarbons that means the carbon atoms are connected with double or triple bonds.
So, the vegetable oil which has unsaturated hydrocarbons i.e. only single bonded carbon atoms. The unsaturated hydrocarbons are good for health whereas vegetable ghee which has saturated hydrocarbons i.e. doubly and triply bonded carbon atoms. These saturated hydrocarbons are not good for health.
This is the reason that vegetable oils are healthy as compared to vegetable ghee.

Additional Information:
Vegetable oil is converted into vegetable ghee by reducing the double and triple to single bonds. This process is known as hydrogenation of oils. This process is done by adding hydrogen to the vegetable ghee in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel or palladium.

Note:
It must be remembered that saturated fatty acids are considered to be harmful for our health. Vegetable oils seem to be the healthy source of fats but there are exceptions in hydrogenated vegetable oils that are high unhealthy trans fats.