A List of Good Fats
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Its time to start your healthy diet plan and our list of good fats is a great resource.  One of the most important topics we explored within fats & oils for your plan was balance between the Omega-3 and Omega-6 families of polyunsaturated fatty acids.



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Virtually all seafood will give you a ratio that favors Omega-3, however, each of the members on the following list provides at least 5 times more Omega-3s than Omega-6s.  These foods are particularly valuable to include because we have a tendency to skew the ratio heavily favoring Omega-6 PUFAs on a daily basis.


Favorable Omega-3 : Omega-6 Ratios

Good

  • Cod
  • Mussels
  • Swordfish
  • Anchovies
  • Haddock (includes Monkfish)

Better

  • Tuna
  • Oysters
  • Salmon
  • Herring
  • Ocean Perch (includes Orange Roughy)

Best

  • Squid & Calamari
  • Seabass
  • Caviar
  • Scallops
  • Barracuda

While seafood is the premier source of the essential PUFAs our body needs, the large class of edible seeds - legumes, nuts & seeds, whole grain food groups - and their oils provide smaller, yet well-balanced sources of Omega-3 and Omega-6s for our diet.  The foods with the best balance are listed below.


Food

Flax seeds

Flax oil

Ghee

Omega-3 : Omega-6 Ratio

3.9 : 1

3.7 : 1

1 : 1.5


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