Seed oils, once hailed as affordable and versatile cooking staples, are now under growing scrutiny. Despite their prevalence in processed foods and home kitchens, emerging research suggests they may ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to clear the final hurdles in his confirmation as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, and a host of health influencers have proclaimed that widely used ...

Zhao is a Takemi fellow at Harvard and assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. For decades, mainstream nutrition guidelines have recommended that Americans replace animal fats like butter ...

By now, you might have heard that seed oils are bad for you — if not from social media wellness influencers, then from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. himself. Kennedy has said these vegetable ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. There’s been a ton of buzz around seed oils over the past few years. Indeed, a November 2024 survey conducted by the International ...

According to health and fitness gurus on TikTok, seed oils are your worst enemy — but the experts don’t agree. The canola oil you use to make brownies or the chicken stir-fry cooked in sunflower oil?

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Yevgen Romanenko—Getty Images, Khanet Janngam—Getty Images, ...

People have used seed oils in cooking for decades to replace foods high in saturated fats like butter or lard. Seeds oils contain healthy fats known as polyunsaturated fatty acids, or PUFAs. Research ...

Imagine you’re listening to a podcast or scrolling through TikTok and you come across someone who claims to be revealing hidden information. They say that kitchen pantries and store shelves are ...

Seed oils come from the seeds of various plants, including flaxseed, soybean, sesame, corn, walnut, sunflower, and more. The nutritional content and potential health effects may vary by the type of ...

Kennedy has said these vegetable oils — extracted from the seeds of plants, like canola, soybean and safflower — are poisoning Americans and driving the obesity epidemic. Part of the evidence he ...