Extra-Virgin Olive Oil🥃 6 things you may not know about EVOO: 🧠Brain-Friendly Fats. EVOO provides mostly monounsaturated fats, the type recommended for a brain protective diet. 💚Polyphenols. When carefully pressed, EVOO retains polyphenols from the olives, which combat inflammation in the brain. 👩🏻‍🍳You can cook with EVOO. While the highest quality EVOO is best for drizzling (to appreciate its flavor and keep the polyphenol count high), cook (gently) or bake with good quality EVOO under 400oF. 🥘EVOO pairings. Italians pair their EVOOs with different foods to better enhance flavors: round and floral (like in the panna cotta👉🏽), peppery and robust (the pasta). 📊EVOO may help with early dementia. When researchers in Greece gave people with MCI (mild cognitive impairment) a medicinal dose of high polyphenol EVOO, they noted some symptoms improved. 👉🏽Swipe to the last slide to see the abstract of this randomized controlled trial. 🫒Olives are fruits and EVOO is fruit juice. Fresh is best. Read the bottle before you buy. Good EVOO should have a harvest date and a place of origin (the farm where the olives grew.) 🕊 On the last day of the Brain Health Retreat in Sicily, we took a deep dive into olive oil with a visit to @tenutacavasecca . After learning about their unique process (designed to cultivate the highest quality EVOOs in the world) we tasted them on their own and with food. Grazie a Dario e tutti la famiglia @tenutacavasecca. 🎁(You can order their EVOO online.) Which of these EVOO facts surprised you? :: :: :: #EVOO #oliveoil #extravirginoliveoil #olives #brainhealth #brainhealthy #mediterraneandiet #mediterraneanfood #MINDdiet #sicily #sicilia 📸: gorgeous olive oil pour shot @haveyoueverseenthelykesofit