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Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
Olive oil is a great choice. So is canola oil, vegetable oil, avocado oil, and pretty much everything else.
Labels describing heatless methods for extracting oil, such as “cold-pressed” or “expeller-pressed,” or highlighting a lack of processing, such as “unfiltered” or “unrefined,” are meant to convey an abundance of healthy bioactive molecules. Minor health aspects of practically every food— sweeteners, caffeine, protein—are constantly surfaced and debated, fueled by an endless cycle of nutrition research and media coverage, and turbocharged by wellness influencers. Unless every other aspect of your diet has been optimized to be as nutritious as possible, it probably doesn’t matter if you exclusively cook with extra-virgin olive oil that’s cold-pressed, unfiltered, and imported straight from a pristine Greek island.
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