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“EVOO is packed with heart-healthy monounsaturated fats that can help lower bad cholesterol levels,” she says.

As for fats, there are different types: polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, saturated and trans fat.

Like olive oil, it is high in healthy monounsaturated fats.

First, it’s essentially fruit juice — the olive “fruit” is mechanically crushed to extract the “juice” — and second, it’s rich in health-promoting phenolic compounds, antioxidants and monounsaturated fats.

One group of mice ate a diet based on saturated fat from coconut oil, another got a monounsaturated, modified soybean oil, a third got an unmodified soybean oil high in polyunsaturated fat.