“In many studies, olive oil has been suspected to exert beneficial effects on health,” Lukas Schwingshackl, MSc, PhD, of the department of epidemiology at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Berlin, and colleagues wrote. “It is an integral part of the Mediterranean diet, providing approximately two-thirds of vegetable fats in this kind of nutrition … The major question is still not well answered [as to] which of the components of the Mediterranean diet is worthwhile to be adopted in countries with other dietary traditions, without having a local substitutional food.”
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