Editorial: The role of dietary fatty acids in metabolic health

Dietary lipid quality plays a pivotal role in shaping cardio-metabolic health (Sears and Perry, 2015; Stonehouse et al., 2021; Sergi et al., 2023). In particular, the ability of different dietary fatty acids to trigger the activation of diverse intracellular signalling pathways is a key discriminant in dictating their impact on cardiometabolic health (Li et al., 2020). Thus, it is now evident that the ability of dietary lipids to modulate health outcomes is not merely driver by their energy density, instead the quality of the dietary lipids assumes a crucial importance to dictate their metabolic impact