What is olive oil? Is olive oil also a vegetable oil?

Olive oil and olive pomace oil have a history of thousands of years in Mediterranean coastal countries. In the West, they are known as "liquid gold", "queen of vegetable oils", and "nectar of the Mediterranean". Edible high-grade olive oil is natural fruit oil juice extracted from fresh olives that are ripe or ripe through physical cold pressing. So is olive oil better to be eaten raw or cooked? Open to see if you are interested in the content.

Contents of this article

1. What is olive oil?

2. Is olive oil also a vegetable oil?

3. Is it better to eat olive oil raw or cooked?

What is olive oil?

Olive oil is directly cold-pressed from fresh olive fruits without heating or chemical treatment, thus retaining its natural nutrients. Olive oil is considered to be the most suitable oil for human nutrition found so far. Olive oil and olive pomace oil have a history of thousands of years in the Mediterranean coastal countries. In the West, they are known as "liquid gold", "queen of vegetable oils" and "nectar of the Mediterranean" because of their excellent natural health and beauty effects and ideal cooking uses.

Is olive oil also a vegetable oil?

Olive oil and olive pomace oil have a history of thousands of years in Mediterranean countries. Edible high-grade olive oil is a natural fruit oil juice extracted from fresh early-ripe or mature olive fruits through a physical cold pressing process. It is one of the woody plant oils in the world that is edible to humans in its natural state.

Is olive oil better eaten raw or cooked?

Eating olive oil raw is actually the best way to consume olive oil, because the vitamins, antioxidants and other nutrients in olive oil are not destroyed by high temperatures and are completely preserved when consumed. However, not all olive oils can be eaten raw. Refined olive oil, pomace oil, so-called pure olive oil, cooking olive oil, olive sunflower oil, etc. cannot be eaten raw. Even if heated, the nutritional content of these olive oils is very limited. When eating raw, you must pay attention to choosing extra virgin olive oil.