Titans Robert Saleh sparks nutritional value debate with seed oil ban in players team provided meals

After a 3-14 decorativeness successful 2025, the Tennessee Titans pivoted to a large offseason shakeup.

Brian Callahan was dismissed six games into his 2nd play arsenic caput coach. Robert Saleh near his antiaircraft coordinator relation with the San Francisco 49ers successful January to regenerate Callahan.

In his 2nd accidental arsenic an NFL caput coach, Saleh volition beryllium tasked with guiding the improvement of Cam Ward, past year’s No. 1 wide draught pick. Ward threw 15 touchdowns and 7 interceptions arsenic a rookie.

Saleh’s archetypal rookie campy with the Titans opened this week, but the caller caput manager said Thursday his absorption extends beyond the achromatic lines connected the shot turf.

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Tennessee Titans manager Robert Saleh speaks with the media earlier the Titans rookie campy astatine Vanderbilt Health Football Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected May 1, 2026. (DENNY SIMMONS / THE TENNESSEAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Seed oils volition nary longer beryllium disposable wrong the Titans’ grooming installation successful Nashville, Saleh announced. The team’s nutrition unit is moving intimately with coaches and players during the transition.

The Titans could people communal cooking oils specified arsenic canola and soybean for replacement with alternatives they judge whitethorn enactment subordinate performance.

A wide presumption of Nissan Stadium successful Nashville, Tennessee, anterior to the NFL crippled betwixt the New England Patriots and the Tennessee Titans connected Oct. 19, 2025. (Kara Durrette/Getty Images)

"One of the archetypal things I deliberation that we did present is get escaped of each of the effect oils successful the building, which I deliberation the players appreciate. Ms. Amy [Adams Strunk, controlling owner] has allowed america to onslaught the fund and get the players a amended variety," Saleh told reporters.

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"I’ve been successful six antithetic buildings, and I’d enactment this unit up determination with the champion of them. The merchandise they enactment retired successful the cafeteria regular is outstanding."

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Saleh’s announcement ignited statement crossed the nutrition community, which remains divided connected the topic.

"There is abundant grounds suggesting that effect oils are not atrocious for you. If anything, they are bully for you," said Matti Marklund, Ph.D., M.S.E., an adjunct prof astatine Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Marklund besides argued effect oils "have been demonized based connected misunderstandings of however they’re made and however the quality assemblage uses them, arsenic good arsenic their ubiquity successful ultraprocessed foods."

Tennessee Titans manager Robert Saleh and violative coordinator Brian Daboll speech during stretching astatine the Titans rookie campy astatine Vanderbilt Health Football Center successful Nashville, Tennessee, connected May 2, 2026. (DENNY SIMMONS / THE TENNESSEAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

The Titans unfastened the regular play Sept. 13 by hosting the New York Jets, the squad Saleh coached from 2021-24.

Historically, effect oils person not been straight tied to NFL cause argumentation violations, but players whitethorn inactive privation to see however definite oils are processed.

Hemp effect lipid mostly has been recovered to beryllium escaped of cannabinoids and is improbable to trigger a affirmative THC test. But unrefined hemp oils, hemp effect macromolecule powders and products made with full oregon crushed hemp seeds tin incorporate hint THC metabolites. Elevated levels of those metabolites successful an athlete’s strategy could perchance enactment a affirmative marijuana trial result.

Hemp effect lipid is commonly utilized successful crockery dressings oregon drizzled implicit finished dishes specified arsenic soups, roasted vegetables and pasta. It besides tin beryllium added to acold dips and sauces oregon blended into mayonnaise and hummus.

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Poppy effect oil, which is sometimes utilized successful muffins and bagels, besides tin incorporate hint amounts of morphine and codeine. Consuming precocious amounts of the lipid could trigger a affirmative cause test, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

"Ingestion of poppy seeds containing morphine and codeine tin output affirmative opiate tests and mislead effect mentation successful forensic and objective settings. Multiple publications evaluated urine opiate concentrations pursuing poppy effect ingestion," according to the NLM.

In 2016, the autarkic head of the NFL’s drug-testing programme warned players against eating nutrient produced successful China and Mexico implicit concerns astir clenbuterol contamination. Clenbuterol is simply a stimulant associated with musculus maturation and value loss.

The substance is prohibited nether the league’s performance-enhancing cause policy. "Consuming ample quantities of nutrient portion visiting those peculiar countries whitethorn effect successful a affirmative test," the administrator’s memo said astatine the time.

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