Cooking on an expensive olive oil unreasonable

Cooking in the best olive oil not particularly useful for health, as by heating the product loses almost all of its useful qualities. That is the conclusion reached by experts from Portugal.

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This is an unfiltered   olive oil   first-class, the label is usually written Extra Virgin . Traditionally, it is considered the most useful for human health vegetable oil, because it contains large amounts of antioxidants (many times more than in sunflower or other vegetable oils).

However, it should not be used Extra Virgin Olive Oil   for cooking, as by heating it loses most of its useful components. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from the University of Porto in Portugal - a country where the very high popularity of the so-called Mediterranean diet. It is this diet is considered very healthy, and it includes a large amount of olive oil.

In the journal Food Research International published the results of experiments, scientists have shown that at the slightest heating oil Extra Virgin decreases the amount of phenolic compounds. We are talking about traditional cooking, and boiling, and the use of microwave ovens. However, even after cooking olive oil remains as useful as sunflower.

But from an economic point of view, the use of Extra Virgin oils for cooking seems unreasonable, because it is at least an order of magnitude more expensive than other vegetable oils. Therefore dorogushchim olive oil is better to fill the already prepared meals. (READ MORE)

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