Dr. Charles Mok explains why extra virgin olive oil is good for your health and weight loss, but warns that much of it is fake, mixed with canola or other oils. He buys California-made oil and questions whether the refrigerator test actually works.
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The use of extra virgin olive oil does favor weight loss, health benefits and lower cardiovascular risk. There's a lot of fraud in extra virgin olive oil. There's countries that, you know, bastardize it with canola oil or different vegetable oils. You're best off getting virgin olive oil made in a single country. When you look at the bottle, if you go to Kroger's, you look at a bottle, it says source from and it gives you 10 countries. Really big opportunity for people to put stuff in there. You might read about how you put in the refrigerator certain one, the virgin versus the fake ones have you stay liquid or solid. That's not definitely prov. Think you can rely on that? Hopefully not reliable. But the extra virgin olive oil sourced from a single country, I buy mine, you know, made in California.