What are the anticancer benefits of olive oil?
Certain varieties of olive oil are particularly protective against cancer, says diet and disease prevention specialist William Li, MD. Learn about the three types of olive oil with the most powerful anticancer benefits.
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It turns out that different types of olive have different types of cancer fighting properties. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Yeah, so when we go out to have olive oil in the United States, we kind of look at almost all olive oils and, frankly, olives
to be very similar. They may taste a little bit different but we think generally they're all the same. Not true. It turns out that different types of olive
have different types of cancer fighting properties. So for example, there are three super olives. One of them is from Spain, called
the picual olive, used in most Spanish olive oils, in fact. Another one is from Italy, particularly in Umbria, the Umbria region.
There's actually an olive called the moraiolo olive. And then in Greece, which is the other great place for olive oils, there's the koroneiki olive,
which is actually made with kalamata olives, that's very similar to kalamata olives. The oil made from these three olives
have some of the highest levels of cancer fighting polyphenols, which are the cancer fighting and antioxidant materials,
ingredients inside olive oil. And so now you think about what you use olive oil for. You can use it to season food.
You can use it to dip bread. You can actually cook with it. And so there are so many things to do with olive oil, you can hardly think of a dish that you couldn't actually
cook or season with it. [AUDIO LOGO]
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