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  • What oil do Italians use for cooking?

    From Mike Dippel@999:1/1 to All on Tue Jul 28 22:19:28 2026
    If olive oil is bad for cooking at high temperature, what oil do Italians use for cooking?

    There is a good reason why Italian grandmothers never paid attention to nutrition
    labeling
    and yet ended up making some of the healthiest and longest living populations in
    history.

    And there is always something very simple behind that.

    The smoke point scare regarding olive oil is one of the most persistent misrepresentations about nutrition and cooking in our time.

    Extra virgin olive oil has a smoke point of 375 - 405F which easily covers all typical
    home cooking practices such as saut ing, roasting or even moderate frying without
    oxidizing to produce unhealthy compounds that high temperature cookery messaging is
    concerned about.

    Full story: https://www.quora.com/If-olive-oil-is-bad-for-cooking-at-high-temperature-what-oil-do-
    Italians-use-for-cooking

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