A+ / EC-2360/06 (ISO 9001)
A+ / MA-0440/06 (ISO 14001)
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HEALTH AND OLIVE OIL
Virgin Olive oil is pure juice that maintains full taste, aroma, vitamins and properties of the olives. This oil is the only vegetable oil that can be taken just produced and raw.
It contains 9 calories per gram, the same proportion as any other vegetable or animal fat.
Lipids are essential nutrients to our body. The main function of the fats is mainly to produce energy. Fats give us the necessary energy to carry out intellectual and physics activities; they also bring us heat.
Besides bringing a delicious taste to meals, fats have an important biologic value, because tissues need the lipids to go on with their activity. Together with this, some vitamins (A, D, E and K) are only soluble in fat and need the lipids to be absorbed by the organism.
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FATTY ACIDS
Among fatty acids contained in vegetable oils, there are two that are essential to the body:
Oleic acid (a monounsaturated fat), that forms 80% of the virgin olive oil, and linoleic acid, (polyunsaturated), that also forms part of the virgin olive oil, essential to our organism.
Fats and cholesterol form lipoproteins when there are combined with proteins; this is the way they can be transported in the blood: LDL, low density protein (“bad cholesterol”) and HLD, high density lipoprotein (“good cholesterol”). “Bad cholesterol” gets stuck in the arteries forming plaque, narrowing them and being a risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
Virgin Olive Oil is the best fat thanks to its high percentage of oleic acid. This acid improves the levels of “good cholesterol” (HDL), which has a protective role transporting “bad cholesterol”, deposited in the arteries, to the liver to be eliminated. This reduces the risks of thrombosis and heart attacks.
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