Is Your Olive Oil Lying About Its Virginity?

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Is Your Olive Oil Lying About Its Virginity?
Deane Alban



You’d have to live in a cave to not have heard about the health benefits of olive oil. It’s a monounsaturated fat that is a major component of the Mediterranean diet and is believed to be a factor why people in that area of the world are some of the healthiest and long-lived.

Olive oil has been used medicinally for over 5,000 years. Its health benefits are legendary. It has been found to boost the immune system, increase bone density, prevent cancer, strokes, and heart disease, lower blood pressure, and reduce your risk of diabetes.

And if that isn’t enough, it seems that olive oil can improve memory and increase overall cognitive function. A large study on 6,000 women over the age of 65 found that women who consumed the highest amount of monounsaturated fats, which can be found in olive oil, had better patterns of cognitive scores over time. (1)

But now it looks like the olive oil you trusted to provide you with health benefits might be a fake! Is nothing sacred anymore?

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http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/12300-is-your-olive-oil-lying-about-its-virginity.html

[madinmaryland]

1. I thought your OP line said: "Is Olive Garden Lying About Its Virginity?"

I need to read things closer!!

[elleng]

2. Following me around, b'sis,

as I cook! (2 nights in a row!!!) O'oil I used, in an old bottle, don't look like no virgin to me!

I heard that to get the good stuff, need to spend big bucks.

[pinto]

3. Olive Oyl's me girl. She wouldn't lie.

[grasswire]

4. there's good news here

Trader Joe's California Estate is one of the top two oils cited. That's what I have in my cupboard.

I won't be buying anything else.

Thanks for an interesting read.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Good - switched to CA OO years ago. Mostly because I had read that

olive oil has the most value when it is consumed shortly after it is made. It said that most Italian oils were probably rancid since it takes longer to get over here. The article said if you take a swig of the freshest oil each day you will never have arthritis/joint pain.