Extra-virgin olive oil, a friend to our body
+ Extra-virgin olive oil is not only a delight to the palate. It is also good for the health!+ This precious food, thanks to its high content of oleic acid, protects the heart and arteries, slows down the cerebral aging process (thanks to the poliphenols), prevents hardening of the arteries and helps to prevent cancer.
+ What is more, it lowers the level of cholesterol LCI, ("bad" cholesterol), while it raises that of HDL ("good" cholesterol).
Extra-virgin olive oil is a product that, both cooked and raw, above all, raw, is easily digestible by our organism because the percentage of fatty acids is very similar to that of mother's milk, the perfect food from any point of view.
+ It is of fundamental importance to know that extra-virgin olive oil:
1° comes from a fruit, whereas all other oils come from seeds;
2° is extracted from the olive fruit by mechanical means, unlike seed oils which are extracted by means of chemical products (usually solvents);
3° is immediately digestible -- there is no need of chemical processes to eliminate solvents;
4° maintains intact all the original nutritional qualities that are present in the fruit.
+ It is important to know that extra-virgin olive oil, besides a nutritional value, has also got an organic quality that depends on the zone of production of the olives, the variety of olive trees, and the techniques of extraction of the oil from the fruit and of its preservation.
