Episode 414: Avocado oil vs. Olive Oil

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Want to really understand the difference between olive oil and avocado oil? Is avocado oil really safer for higher heat? How do these two oils stack up in terms of nutritional benefits? Tune in to hear us answer these questions and more in this episode all about olive oil vs. avocado oil. In this episode, we unpack the history of olive oil and avocado oil, how both are produced, and what goes into processing them. We discuss refining and how this can be problematic, smoke point considerations, what EVOO means, and how we use each in culinary applications. Listen the whole way through to hear our conclusion of the olive oil vs. avocado oil debate! Also in this episode: History of Olive Oil vs. Avocado Oil Processing and Production Smoke Point What Exactly is EVOO? Spray Bottle for Olive OilAmazon.com: PUZMUG Oil Sprayer for Cooking, Olive Oil Sprayer Mister, 100ml Olive Oil Spray Bottle for Salad, BBQ, Kitchen Baking, Roasting How are Olive and Avocado Oil Refined? Health Benefits Culinary UseThe Best Marinade and Chimichurri Sauce Beet Hummus - A healthy alternative to regular hummus Simple Olive Oil Mayonnaise Green Goddess Dressing ROASTED BEET AND GOAT CHEESE SALAD WITH THE BEST BALSAMIC DRESSING Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by FOND Bone Broth, your sous chef in a jar. FOND’s bone broths and tallows are produced in small batches with premium ingredients from verified regenerative ranches. Their ingredients are synergistically paired for maximum absorption, nutritional benefit, and flavor. Use code NATURALLY to save at fondbonebroth.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.7	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health.
0:31.1	Please know, the topic is discussed are for educational purposes only.
0:36.3	Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Ali Miller, and her co-host, Becky You.
0:42.7	Welcome to episode 414 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast. In today's episode, we are going to get
0:48.9	into a frequently asked question. What's the deal with avocado oil? Is this a safe oil for us to be using? How does it
0:57.6	compare with olive oil? We will answer all that and more. We'll talk smoke point, composition,
1:04.6	unique nutrients and antioxidants, any concerns with either of these oil and how we might apply one versus the other in our own
1:13.7	households for culinary applications. Yes, this is one that I personally wanted to dig deeper
1:19.5	into as I'm constantly assessing the staples in my household and taking that good, better, best
1:27.3	perspective. I know early on in
1:30.5	my dietetics career and learning about food as medicine at best year, smoke point was really
1:36.7	something that was deeply kind of put into our brains as the mechanism of what fat are you
1:42.8	selecting. And that's what really helped me
1:44.6	make peace with using more saturated fats in the kitchen, learning about rendering tallow and
1:50.9	pasture-raised lard, and some of these fats that had otherwise been demonized by for sure
1:57.2	the American diet and dietetics careers. However, as I just think in my own household,
2:03.5	in the world of traditional foods,
2:05.7	and I think of olive oil being used for hundreds of years,
2:09.5	you know, we'll talk thousands that it's been extracted
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