#242 The Benefits of Olive Oil with Dr Simon Poole
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Olive oil is a hot topic. We first dived into the benefits of olive oil back on episode 99 with Dr Simon, but I thought it was time for an update.
Today you’re going to learn about:
Why Olive oil is so healthy
The evidence for Olive oils benefits
How much Olive oil you should be consuming every day for benefits
How to choose a quality Olive oil
The minimum polyphenol content you need to look out for
Whether “cold pressed” means anything
Cheap and fake olive oils and whether they have any value
Dr Simon Poole is in the studio and on YouTube you can watch our taste test with 5 different olive oils. He shows me the techniques behind how to smell, taste and grade olive oils and how you can do this at home too!
Dr Simon is an internationally acclaimed expert in the mediterranean diet and lifestyle, and the nutrition of extra virgin olive oil. He has more than 30 years experience as a medical doctor, he’s a teacher and researcher in Cambridge, widely published in academic journals, and is author of award winning books including The Olive Oil Diet, The Real Mediterranean Diet, Diabetes for Dummies and Diabetes Nutrition for Dummies.
We also taste test his own olive oil called “Positively Good For You” that isn’t available for purchase at present, but watch this space because considering the flavour, quality and price of the oil, I expect to see it on shelves soon.
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| 0:00.0 | Doctors Kitchen. |
| 0:03.0 | Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:05.0 | We don't eat macronutrients, do we? |
| 0:08.0 | We eat foods, you know, which is why we can talk about saturated fat cheese. |
| 0:13.4 | We can start to worry about cheese, but actually cheese is much more than |
| 0:17.5 | saturated fat. |
| 0:18.5 | And I think similarly, you can talk about extra virgin olive oil, but actually talking about it in the context of foods, |
| 0:25.6 | combining and also context in the context of meals, I think is really where we need to be |
| 0:31.9 | focusing the sign. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen Podcast. |
| 0:40.0 | The show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Dr. Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition and I'm a firm believer in the power of food and lifestyle as medicine. |
| 0:58.4 | Join me and my expert guests where we discuss the multiple determinants of what allows you to lead your best life. |
| 1:10.0 | Olive Oil is a hot topic right now. We dived first into the benefits of |
| 1:16.1 | Olive Oil back in episode 99 with Dr Simon, but I thought it was time for an update. |
| 1:21.6 | So today you're going to learn about why olive oil |
| 1:24.4 | is so healthy and the evidence for the benefits of olive oil, how much olive oil |
| 1:29.7 | you should be consuming everyday for said benefits, how to choose a quality olive oil, the |
| 1:35.5 | minimum polyphenol content you need to be looking for, and whether cold press means anything |
| 1:40.4 | and the differences between cheap and even fake olive oils and whether they have any value whatsoever. |
| 1:47.0 | Dr Simon Paul is in the studio and on YouTube you can also watch us taste test five different olive oil. |
| 1:55.4 | He shows me the techniques behind how to smell, taste, and grade olive oils and how you can do this at home too. And as a reminder, Dr Simon is an internationally acclaimed |
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