Olive oil seems to have the ability to lower cholesterol levels in the blood.
As regards the area of food oil has always been one of the main products of classical antiquity. In the Roman world was not used more seasoning for cooking and for salad dressing was used the best oil: oil were particularly renowned green Venafro, as attested by Brown, Pliny, Strabo and Horace, and that of Liburnia in Istria; poor was considered the African oil which was used exclusively for lighting. There were then, as now, counterfeiting, if we believe a recipe of Apicius who taught to disguise the oil Liburnia using a Spanish product.
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