Olive Oil Is Now The Most Popular Cooking Oil
Move over you other fats, in the United Kingdom, cooking oil has now become the most popular oil that people cook with. This indicates a new, healthier way of cooking is catching on.
Some 50.1 per cent of homes are buying olive oil, up from 47 per cent last year, according to manufacturer Filippo Berio.
The firm’s Diane Anderson said: “It can be attributed to more emphasis on healthy eating and the evolution to a more Mediterranean diet.”
The big advantage to using olive oil as your cooking oil is that it’s mono-unsaturated, meaning it doesn’t contain saturated fats, which tend to be bad for your heart.