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Okay, you know I'm of your health and live a long happy life.

Okay, you know I'm a big fan of olive oil and a big fan of avocados.

But what about avocado oil?

Truth is, avocado oil is not one of my favorites.

So why the craze about avocado oil?

Well, here's what people like about it.

First of all, it has a very high smoke point.

Now, smoke point refers to the temperature

that you bring an oil up to before smoke rises out of the oil.

And quite frankly, smoking oil is not exactly a pleasant thing to be around,

and people assume that a smoke point has

to do with the oil oxidizing and going bad. In fact it has nothing to do with that

as we'll talk about in a minute.

But it makes it for a very good cooking oil for that point.

Now, avocado oil is a lot better than most seed oils.

The vast majority of seed oils and bean oils,

like for instance, peanut oil, like for instance,

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