{"id":4644,"date":"2019-08-28T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/?p=4644"},"modified":"2023-09-26T07:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:17:34","slug":"is-olive-oil-a-vegetable-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/blog\/entry\/is-olive-oil-a-vegetable-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is olive oil a vegetable oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body-font section-post-box-content\">\n<p><b>What are vegetable oils?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Before answering the question, \u2018is olive oil a vegetable oil?\u2019, I would like to delve into the criteria for determining whether or not an oil is a vegetable oil. Broadly speaking, vegetable oils are<b>\u00a0oils that are extracted from seeds or fruits composed mainly of unsaturated fatty acids<\/b>. For example, oils that come from sunflower seeds or from nuts fall within this classification.<\/p>\n<p><b>What are the characteristics of vegetable oils?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Vegetable oils are\u00a0<b>characterized by being liquid at room temperature, rich in unsaturated fatty acids<\/b>\u00a0(for example, omega 3, 6 and 9), by lowering levels of bad cholesterol, and by their anti-inflammatory nature.<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<figure class=\"rte-img-chosen\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/themes\/user\/site\/default\/asset\/img\/blog\/800x499_imagen-2_post_5.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>So, is olive oil a vegetable oil?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Olive oil comes from olives, which have a high content of unsaturated fatty acids. So if a vegetable oil is characterized by coming from fruits with a high content of fatty acids, the answer is yes,\u00a0<b>olive oil is a vegetable oil<\/b>. It is also a liquid oil at room temperature, it lowers cholesterol levels, and it acts as an anti-inflammatory.<\/p>\n<p>For all these reasons, olive oil is not only part of the group of vegetable oils, it is also one of the most representative oils of this group.<\/p>\n<p>*Source:\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK343489\/\">NCBI<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are vegetable oils? Before answering the question, \u2018is olive oil a vegetable oil?\u2019, I would like to delve into the criteria for determining whether or not an oil is a vegetable oil. Broadly speaking, vegetable oils are\u00a0oils that are extracted from seeds or fruits composed mainly of unsaturated fatty acids. For example, oils that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-origen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4647,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4644\/revisions\/4647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carbonell-oliveoil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}