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Sit down! Could your next coffee order just be café au...oil? It is especially common to drink olive oil. Many of us follow the popular practice of taking a spoonful of EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) every morning. And while "bulletproof" coffee with fats like butter has been popular for a few years in the nutrition and wellness communities, it's exciting to see it heading to the high street with Starbucks' announcement that it will launch "extra virgin coffee infused with olive oil." in the form of the new "Oleato" series. But is it really healthy? What are the benefits?...

When olive products meet health" , was the topic of a conference which was co-organized, within the framework of the OLIVE OIL DAYS institution, by FILAIOS, the Training & Lifelong Learning Center as well as the School of Public Health of the University of Western Attica and took place on Saturday 16 December 2023, at the Lytras Amphitheater, on the Alsus Egaleo Campus. The event concluded with the awarding of the professor emeritus of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens, Member of the Academy of Athens and Supervisor of Public Health Ms. Antonia Trichopoulou, who contributed, from...

Olive oil is a basic product of our country both in commercial and nutritional terms and has been the subject of multiple studies on its beneficial properties. In recent years, extra virgin olive oil has been chosen for conducting experiments since it shows higher percentages of phenolic components, namely those used, oleocanthal and oleasin. Oleocanthal and oleasin have attracted the interest of the scientific community in recent years with the results already being very significant. The value of the research in this particular subject is particularly great if you take into account that in the midst of a crisis in...