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The bitter taste of polyphenol-rich oils (e.g., olive, flaxseed) significantly limits dietary acceptance and ingestion, thereby reducing the cardiovascular health benefits of these fatty acids.
If you dislike the bitter taste of healthy oils like olive or flaxseed, don't skip them. Use processing tricks like heating the oil (for cooking), storing it cold, or mixing it with flavored foods (like milled flax in muffins) to mask the bitterness. This makes it easier to actually eat them and get the heart benefits.
No food will provide health benefits if it is not ingested. This review discusses the taste characteristics of culinary oils that contain fatty acids... The bitter taste can be reduced in a variety of ways... encouraging the consuming public to actually ingest these oils has been a considerable challenge.
Why this rating
The paper is a review summarizing various studies; it does not present new primary clinical trial data itself.
Source
Overcoming the Bitter Taste of Oils Enriched in Fatty Acids to Obtain Their Effects on the Heart in Health and Disease
Aleksandra Stamenković et al. · Nutrients · 2019
DOI 10.3390/nu11051179
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