雙語美文：還用玉米油炸薯條

　　French Fries on the Corny Side

　　Ever wonder what your French fries were fried in? Likebumblingburglars who leave fingerprints at a crime scene, cooking oils leave their own clues. And by measuring the carbonisotopes in French fries, University of Hawaii researchers found that one oil tops all others as the choice to fry fries in: corn oil. That’s according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

　　你是否曾想過盤中的薯條是用什麼炸的？就像笨賊們會在犯罪現場留下指紋一樣，烹飪用油也會在食物中留下痕跡。《美國國家科學院院刊》的一篇報道稱：夏威夷大學的研究人員透過測定炸薯條中碳同位素的含量，發現玉米油是炸薯條的首選，其用量超過了其他食用油。

　　National chain restaurants typically reveal only that fries may contain one or more of the following oils: corn,canola, soybean, cottonseed, sunflower andpalm. But consumers might like a little more info: in a meal of burger, fries and soda, 20 percent of the total calories come from the oil that fried the potatoes.

　　一些全國連鎖餐廳特別指出,只有炸薯條可能會含有以下食用油中一種或幾種：玉米油、菜籽油、豆油、棉籽油、葵花油和棕櫚油。但消費者或許需要知道更多：一餐含有漢堡、薯條和汽水的食物中，總熱量的20%都來自炸薯片所用的食用油中。

　　Analyzing fries from nearly 200 Hawaiian restaurants, the scientists found that 69 percent of the national chainoutlets used corn oil, compared with just 20 percent of independent eateries.

　　對近200家夏威夷餐廳的炸薯條進行分析後，科學家們發現69%的全國連鎖餐廳使用玉米油，而在個體獨立經營的飯館中，比例只有20%。

　　Corn oil is probably the least healthy of the oils mentioned, with more harmfulsaturated fats than canola or sunflower and fewer heart-healthy compounds than soybean. Of course, regardless of what they’re fried in, French fries probably aren’t on your diet. Then again, you’re probably not on your diet either.

　　上述所提到的所有食用油中，玉米油可能是最無益的'，它的有害飽和脂肪含量比菜籽油或葵花油高，而有益心臟健康的化合物含量比豆油低。當然，不管薯條用什麼油炸，它可能並不會出現在你的節食食譜上，不過，你也很有可能不按自己的節食食譜來飲食。