The ‘Biblical Eating’ Trend Has Come For Us — And Nutritionists Have THOUGHTS

“The Bible mentions olive oil 190 times, and canola oil was not mentioned once.”

This is a statement villainizing seed oils from a creator who endorses “biblical eating,” a concept you’re probably seeing a whole lot of these days.

A growing number of influencers are encouraging followers to base their diets on foods mentioned in scripture. The trend has inspired everything from Christian-branded protein bars and energy drinks to creators sharing Bible-approved Botox or methods to “melt visceral fat” — two topics I don’t remember coming up in Sunday school.

If that sounds less like first-century Judea and more like modern wellness culture with a biblical twist, that’s because it is, according to Josh Howard, an American Evangelism and American History research assistant at Emory University.

You’ll often see biblical eating influencers praising “grass-fed” beef, “organic” produce or “clean” foods as though they’re recovering a simpler, more biblical way of eating. But according to Howard, those are modern wellness concepts that people in biblical times wouldn’t have used to describe their diets.