双语美文：还用玉米油炸薯条

双语美文：还用玉米油炸薯条

　　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.

　　你是否曾想过盘中的薯条是用什么炸的？就像笨贼们会在犯罪现场留下指纹一样，烹饪用油也会在食物中留下痕迹。《美国国家科学院院刊》的一篇报道称：夏威夷大学的研究人员通过测定炸薯条中碳同位素的含量，发现玉米油是炸薯条的首选，其用量超过了其他食用油。

　　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.

　　一些全国连锁餐厅特别指出,只有炸薯条可能会含有以下食用油中一种或几种：玉米油、菜籽油、豆油、棉籽油、葵花油和棕榈油。但消费者或许需要知道更多：一餐含有汉堡、薯条和汽水的食物中，总热量的20%都来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.

　　对近200家夏威夷餐厅的炸薯条进行分析后，科学家们发现69%的全国连锁餐厅使用玉米油，而在个体独立经营的`饭馆中，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，玉米油可能是最无益的，它的有害饱和脂肪含量比菜籽油或葵花油高，而有益心脏健康的化合物含量比豆油低。当然，不管薯条用什么油炸，它可能并不会出现在你的节食食谱上，不过，你也很有可能不按自己的节食食谱来饮食。