Is olive oil suitable for cooking?

Virgin olive oil is only suitable for cold salad or low-temperature cooking, such as steaming vegetables, making soup and stuffing, while refined olive oil can be used for high-temperature cooking such as stir-frying, frying and frying. But for the sake of health, no matter what kind of cooking oil you use, you should try to avoid cooking temperature.

Due to high temperature heating (above 120 degrees), the antioxidant substances of virgin olive oil will be destroyed, and because the purity is not high enough, it is easy to smoke. In addition, the special aroma will be destroyed. So virgin olive oil is generally not used for cooking. Refined olive oil is more suitable for cooking, because there are few nutrients that are afraid of heat during refining, and the purity is high and it is not easy to smoke. Olive blending oil is more afraid of high temperature cooking.

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The most important nutrients in olive oil are antioxidant nutrients, such as olive polyphenols. By controlling cooking temperature and time, the nutrition of olive polyphenols can be effectively preserved.

Although olive oil has many functions, like other edible oils, it contains 99.9 grams of fat and 899 kilocalories per100g. So eating too much is not good for your health, and it can also cause obesity and other problems. Olive oil should not be eaten more than 30 grams a day, and it is best to limit it to less than 25 grams.

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