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Green Gold: Our Love Affair With Olive Oil (encore)

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The Different Types of Olive Oil

Bad olive oil is called lampante officially speaking, meaning it's only fit for use for lighting a lamp. Lampante oil will typically be made from olives that have fallen from the tree rather than being freshly picked. To make this bad oil remotely palatable, the fakers do something called deodorization. They clean the oil of the nasty overtones by heating it to about 40 to 60 degrees Celsius. It's tasteless at this point but deodorization also removes any of the healthful compounds and you're left with just the fat.

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