Biggest food myths

By Susie Burrell
Updated May 7 2014 - 12:10pm, first published April 16 2014 - 10:26am
Fabulous fat: the oil from a coconut? Photo: Jose Luis Pelaez
Fabulous fat: the oil from a coconut? Photo: Jose Luis Pelaez

As we learn more and more about nutrition, and the greater the number of "experts" out there publishing diet books inevitably leads to the propagation of new diet beliefs and trends, whether or not there is evidence to support them. Here are a few doing the rounds at the moment and the conclusion the nutritional science really leads us to.