Talk:Rancidification
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[edit] Antioxidant carcinogens?
Wait wait wait, antioxidants are carcinogens now? what happened to them being -anti- carcinogens that captured free radicals? I also disagree with the sentence: "the chemical anti-oxidants are potential carcinogens". In addition to previous contributor rationale, if chemical antioxidants are used that is because very strict regulated scientific procedures have concluded that they are safe. Subject sentence is at the very least misleading. 84.120.135.112 07:11, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
- While most antioxidants will disable known carcinogens, this doesn't mean that antioxidant products are all necessarily benign. They may just as easily cause damage to the body as well, by unbalancing various systems. For all we know, some very well might have carcinogenic properties themselves. Tyciol 23:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The effects of cooking on fats
As heat accelerates the oxidation reactions that cause fat to go rancid, wouldn't cooking anything with fat in it therefore make the fat inedible? Certain fats seem to be more prone to this than others. From what I can tell, fat oils like olive oil or animal fats are used a lot for cooking, and are stable... do they require higher temperatures or something? This article still doesn't clearly identify exactly what rancidification IS, nor very explicitly the health effects of eating rancid fats. Would rancid fats be comparable or worse than trans-fats or other modified fat products in the diet, for example? Tyciol 23:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ratio of antioxidants
In the sentence "A combination of water-soluble and fat-soluble antioxidants is ideal, usually in the ratio of fat to water" seems to indicate based on its ordering that the ratio used would be the percent of water-soluble antioxidants is directly to proportional to the percent of fat in the food, with the ratio of fat-soluble antioxidants being directly proportional to the percent of water in the food. Is this actually the case, it seems a bit counter-intuitive.
If it's not the case just changing "ratio of fat to water" to agree with the order of the first part of the sentence, "ratio of water to fat" would clear it up.--Jay the Despicable 22:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
