Many recipes call for olive oil, from dressings to marinades to stir-fry. While olive oil is flavorful and high in healthy fats, it can be expensive. Trying your favorite recipes with other healthful oils may save you money and can add different flavors to your favorite dishes. A bit of oil is essential for a
Here’s a hot tip from the original beauty icon, Cleopatra: Make olive oil a central part of your skincare routine. Well before the insights of modern science, the Queen of the Nile knew bathing with olive oil would give her softer, brighter skin. Now, centuries later, research backs up Cleopatra’s beauty philosophy and presents additional
Switching from a diet high in saturated fat to one high in monounsaturated fat may help you lose a small amount of extra weight even if you don’t eat fewer calories, according to a study published in the “British Journal of Nutrition” in September 2003. No single cooking oil is suitable for all uses, but
While olive oil typically doesn’t come with negative side-effects, it is pure fat — which contains more than double the calories of carbohydrates or protein. Therefore, over consumption can lead to weight gain, which may contribute to heart disease and some types of cancer, according to “The New York Times Health Guide.” This is true
Olive pomace is the pulpy residue from olives after pressing. The total of olive weight, the pomace 70 – 90 %, the stone 9-27% and the seed about 2-3%. Pomace contains about 2-8 % residual oil. Olive pomace oils, obtained by refining of the oil extracted from the olive pomace. The purpose of processing the
