I’ve seen a lot of people trying to cook without oil for dietary reason and it made me wonder, what would happen if we cooked food in an “indigestible” fat like wax? Of course wax is only an example, I’m thinking of a fat that is not absorbed by the human body and doesn’t produced any nasties when cooked.
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Look up Olestra. You’d basically poop out undigested fat….because it was never meant to be in your system, it would either leak like Olestra did, or solidify and mess up your bowels, intestinal flora or who knows what else:
i believe olestra was used for this same idea, it’s very similar to typical digestible fats, similar mouthfeel for example, but it’s too large to be absorbed by the intestinal walls and instead passes through the digestive tract without adding calories. however, the fact that this fat is indigents means your stool is much fattier than usual, leading to abdominal pain, loose stools, and anal leakage
You would have oily poops and anal leakage. I was actually prescribed mineral oil as a child for constipation and while it made poop move through my intestines easier, it also made all farts oily and messy.
Fat substitutes do exist, olestra for example. Some of them don’t have the best “outcomes” if you prefer not having GI upset and diarrhea.
Remember the potato chips with olestra?
Ah, like escolar. It would go through your body undigested and do horrible things to your poop.
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