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“Enova is the first cooking oil clinically shown to help you maintain a healthy weight when used as part of a sensible diet,” says the product’s Web site )enovaoil.com). “Studies show that, compared to other cooking and salad oils, less Enova oil is stored in the body as fat....”

Ordinary oils like soybean, olive, corn, and canola are composed mostly of fat molecules called triglycerides. They also contain small amounts of other fat molecules called diglycerides, or diacylglycerides. Enova’s manufacturer, the grain-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland, takes a mixture of canola and soybean oil and converts some 80 percent of it into diacylglycerides.

This “DAG” oil, the company maintains, is more likely to be burned for energy than stored in fat cells, as triglycerides are. But it’s not clear how that would lead to weight loss. DAG doesn’t boost metabolic rate, so if the body doesn’t store Enova in fat cells, it’s going to store something else instead.

ADM also says that Enova may work by suppressing appetite. Is there anything to the company’s claims? Yes...and no.

If you expect to lose weight by switching to Enova as your regular cooking oil, you’ll probably be disappointed.

In the largest published study of DAG oil, 65 obese men and women consumed 15 percent of their calories from Enova oil while on a lower-calorie diet for six months. They lost two more pounds than 62 similar people on the same diet who consumed ordinary cooking oil.1

“That’s not much of a weight loss,” points out researcher Marie-Pierre St-Onge of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. “What’s more, the two extra pounds were lost during the first three months. The study didn’t show that people continue to lose weight with a DAG oil.”

What about using Enova not to lose weight, but to prevent gaining it?

In a just-completed study, 155 overweight or obese Japanese men and women who weren’t dieting were told to substitute Enova for their usual cooking oil. After a year, they weighed an average of two pounds less than similar people who continued to use their regular oil. Those small changes could add up.

“If a food could prevent a one- or two-pound weight gain every year, that would help adults avoid gradually becoming overweight and obese as they get older,” notes researcher Peter Jones of McGill University in Montreal.But it’s too early to know if the unpublished Japanese results are valid and would last beyond a year.

Bottom line

The jury is still out on how much weight, if any, you can lose by switching to Enova. Just keep in mind that, like all oils, Enova contains 120 calories per tablespoon. And expect to shell out two to three times as much as you’d pay for olive, canola, or most other oils.