Corn oil is used both as a food oil and as an industrial oil.

As with many oils, it can be placed on the market: natural, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated.

Health
Corn oil intake has no effect on hepatic fibrogenesis, in this study carried out on a comparison with the intake of lard (1).

As for the effects of edible oils heated on the intake of trans fatty acids, which are therefore harmful to health, an ordinary frying process at 170 ° (in this case a slice of chicken) has had little impact on the daily consumption of acidstrans fat (2).

Animal feed
There is a tendency to use more alternative lipids in the feeding of poultry, both through mixtures of animal-vegetable origin and corn oil compounds (3).

Industry
It is used for the production of cheeses (4), sausages (5) biodiesel (6).

References_____________________________

(1) Comparative proteomic analysis of fibrotic liver of rats fed high fat diet contained lard versus corn oil.
Wang H, Sit WH, Tipoe GL, Liu Z, Wan JM.
Clin Nutr. 2015 Nov
(2) Formation of trans fatty acids during the frying of chicken fillet in corn oil.
Yang M, Yang Y, Nie S, Xie M, Chen F, Luo PG.
Int J Food Sci Nutr. 2014 May
(3) Effects of peroxidized corn oil on performance, AMEn, and abdominal fat pad weight in broiler chicks.
Ehr IJ, Kerr BJ, Persia ME.
Poult Sci. 2015 Jul
(4) Use of corn oil in the production of Turkish white cheese.
Arslan S, Topcu A, Saldamli I, Koksal G.
J Food Sci Technol. 2014 Oct;
(5) Dry-fermented chicken sausage produced with inulin and corn oil: physicochemical, microbiological, and textural characteristics and acceptability during storage.
Menegas LZ, Pimentel TC, Garcia S, Prudencio SH.
Meat Sci. 2013 Mar
(6) Influence of corn oil recovery on life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn ethanol and corn oil biodiesel.
Wang Z, Dunn JB, Han J, Wang MQ.
Biotechnol Biofuels. 2015 Nov