Despite what the research might suggest, fried foods aren’t good for you.
“Fried foods don’t cause heart disease!” “Fried foods are healthy!” The headlines about a new study from Spain were hard to miss this week, after researchers there announced that they were unable to find a link between eating fried food and an increased risk of heart disease.
The research, published in the British Journal of Medicine, followed 40,757 Spaniards for 11 years and tracked their rates of heart problems along with their habits around eating fried foods. Most of the participants ate a lot of fried food, both at home and at restaurants, and when they fried food at home, they used olive and sunflower oils, which are traditionally part of the Mediterranean diet. At the end of the study, it appeared that foods fried in those oils didn’t increase the risk of heart disease.
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