Your cart
There are no more items in your cart
Extra virgin olive oil is highly digestible and it is recommended in weaning by adding it to food from the first months of life. It provides the organism with oleic acid, essential for the development of the brain and the mineralization of bones.
It is a readily available energy reserve; thus, it becomes important during adolescence because it is a growing age that requires a lot of energy.
The adulthood is the age where you need to make important food – dietary and even lifestyle– choices. They will be the health insurance for future years. In this period of your life, it is appropriate to balance the caloric and protein intake (preferring vegetable and animal proteins) and to do some physical activity. EVO oil becomes fundamental in our nutrition and, for being a vegetable fat, it should be preferred to animal fats and is essential as a basic ingredient in our meals.
As we become elder and older, our organism undergoes a natural and progressive decay. Muscle mass (lean mass) and bone mass decrease, while fat mass tends to increase. Even in this case, a healthy and correct diet can help us to effectively counteract this trend. Extra virgin olive oil is once again very useful because, in addition to its authenticity and high digestibility, facilitates digestion and promotes the absorption of vitamins and minerals, besides counteracting the lack of appetite and, thanks to its laxative power, improves the regulation of the intestine.
Where the balance of diet reaches its climax is in the nutrition of a person who practises sport. An athlete needs an ad hoc nutrition in order to obtain the best possible performance. Moreover, it should not alter the target weight, but recover the energy consumed and the stress to which his/her body has been subjected to for his/her performance. Meals consisting of energetic foods, highly digestible, rich in vitamins and in fats (which represent a very useful energy reserve for physical efforts) cannot fail at contemplating the use of extra virgin olive oil that, with its nutritional characteristics, meets these needs.
Particular attention goes to pregnant women. During this period, you need more calories and protein. Two tablespoons of EVO oil in your daily diet, with their component of essential fatty acids, together with the intake of (preferably vegetable: soy, legumes, etc.) protein can effectively fulfil the task of delivering a perfectly healthy baby. The plant origin of Extra virgin olive oil, finally, makes it a fundamental ingredient in vegetarian and vegan diets and does not cause any food intolerance. Ultimately, we can surely say that EVO oil is among the healthiest foods in the Mediterranean diet. The ideal daily quantity to be included in our diet is three tablespoons. Although its resistance to heat is high (smoke point at 210°) and thus it is excellent for cooking, raw consumption remains the most recommended.