Olive Oil - Photo by the nutritionist and photographer, Yosef Rozsansky. 

It is one of the oldest vegetable fats and is the main source of lipids of the Mediterranean diet. Olive oil provides a great health benefit.

The olive oil is a oily juice which is obtained with the extraction of the olives. There are many varieties that will confer different characteristics depending on the one used.

There are also different types of olive oil, depending on the extraction mode or the manufacturing process. The extra virgin olive oil is the purest, which is extracted by cold pressing.

This oil will be the most beneficial since it contains all the intact characteristics of the olive oil.