A new study offers reassurance about the safety of certain processed fats found in everyday foods. Interesterified fats made ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have found that palmitic acid, one of the most common fats in human milk, meats and dairy products, is made by the liver and sent to the developing brain when ...

A new study, published in the journal Nature, has found a key fatty acid found in palm oil can promote cancer metastasis in mice. The research, which does not claim dietary palm oil has cancer-causing ...

Researchers at IRB Barcelona publish in the journal Nature the mechanism by which dietary palmitic acid (and not oleic or linoleic acid) favours tumour expansion. Tumour cells temporarily exposed to a ...

Two types of industrially processed hard fats, widely used in everyday foods such as bakery products, margarines and spreads, ...

Study in healthy adults: two common processed fats delivered similar cholesterol, inflammation, and vessel-function results ...

Researchers found that commonly used processed fats made from palm and plant oils do not raise heart disease risks when eaten in normal dietary amounts. Two kinds of processed hard fats commonly found ...

A new study headed by researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) has uncovered how palmitic acid (PA)—a fatty acid commonly found in palm oil—alters the cancer genome, increasing ...

New research has identified a link between the spread of mouth and skin cancer in mice and the consumption of palmitic acid. Palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil on the planet, used as a raw ...

A new study by researchers at King’s College London and Maastricht University is questioning the assumption that industrially ...