What exactly does the process of frying a food break down to make it unhealthy? Does the opposite happen to unhealthy foods when fried (i.e. an Oreo)?
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What is considered unhealthy about deep fried food is the high amount of fat. To deep fry a food, that food is usually coated in a dough or breading (which is adding carbs to the food) and then submerged in hot oil, causing the dough/breading to become soaked with fat.
Whether you fry an Oreo or a piece of broccoli doesn’t matter – in the process, fat and carbs are added to it which makes it more unhealthy than it was before.
This isn’t saying that fat and carbs by itself are unhealthy, it’s about how much of these things we eat.
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