Hold onto your stir-fry pans! New research has sizzled its way onto the food scene, suggesting a diet high in soybean oil might not be as gut-friendly as previously thought.
Soybean oil, by far the most widely consumed and produced edible oil in the United States, has been linked to ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, according to a new study (pdf).
“Our work challenges the decades-old thinking that many chronic diseases stem from the consumption of excess saturated fats from animal products and that, conversely, unsaturated fats from plants are necessarily more healthful,” Poonamjot Deol, an assistant professional researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and a co-author of the paper, said in a press release….