Prof Sarah Berry

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · Inside Tim Spector’s weekly food shop - 6 grocery rules to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart disease risk | Prof Tim Spector & Prof Sarah Berry · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

But extra vegin olive oil retains all of the wonderful bioactives like the polyphenols.

For cooking, I typically buy rapeseed oil, it's known as canola oil i i in the US, or a

What we call kind of a bog standard sort of vegetable oil, which is typically made up of mainly rapeseed canola and sometimes has a bit of sunflower oil in the UK or soybean oil in the US.

It's very high in polyunsaturated fats, which we know really good for our heart, really good for our cholesterol, and it has a decent amount of monounsaturated fats.

It's a bit more stable for cooking as well than extra virginal olive oil, and it has quite a neutral taste.

If you like the

Taste, absolutely go for extra virgin olive oil.

Remember though that if you're heating at high temperatures, you will destroy some of those polyphenols.

Extravir olive oil is very expensive.

And so that's why I think for people that may not have the budget for extra virgin olive oil to use through all of their cooking, that's why I think a rapeseed canola oil is a really good alternative.

I absolutely buy snacks, and the science shows that snacking is not unhealthy.

Depending on what you snack.

So in the UK, in the US, in many countries, about 20 to 25% of our energy comes from snacks.

I believe that for people who do snack, it's one of the single simplest dietary strategies to improve your health.

A proof of principle of this, I conducted a trial at King's some years ago where we asked people to consume 20% of their calories from either nuts or UK typical US typical calories.

typical snacks.

We've monitored them for six weeks.

At the end of the six weeks, the improvement in

Um, lots of intermediary cardiovascular risk measures.

So things like blood cholesterol, blood vessel function in those consuming the nuts versus those consuming US-UK typical snacks, equated to a 30% reduction in cardiovascular disease.

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