Are vegetable oils bad for you? Learn the facts about health effects, safe cooking tips, myths, and which oils may support heart health.

Vegetable oil gets an unfairly bad rap, but some vegetable oils are healthier than others. Vegetable oil can refer to oil that comes from plants, but the vegetable oil you see in the supermarket is ...

Lindsey DeSoto, RD, is a nutrition writer, medical reviewer, and registered dietitian who helps clients improve their diet for health-related reasons. Her writing covers a variety of topics, including ...

Cooking oil looks simple, but it behaves like a chemical. Heat it too much, reuse it incorrectly, or pick the wrong oil for ...

For‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ many years one of the Indian kitchen debates has been the question: which is better for cooking - ghee or ...

A controversial food ingredient allowed in the U.S. for about 100 years is finally retiring. It’s called brominated vegetable oil (BVO). Environmentalists and food safety advocates are applauding the ...

Fried chicken, brownies from a box and stir-fried veggies—very different foods that, nevertheless, share a common ingredient: vegetable oil. Its omnipresence might suggest otherwise, but don’t be ...

The FDA recently banned brominated vegetable oil (BVO), an emulsifier used in citrus-flavored sodas to keep flavor oils evenly distributed. BVO has been replaced by safer alternatives due to potential ...