Oleic Acid Is not the Only Relevant Mono-Unsaturated Fatty Ester in Olive Oil

Extra virgin olive oil and oleic acid

For many decades, researchers have investigated the relationships between health status and consumption of extra virgin olive oil. Extra virgin olive oil (and oleic acid) is considered important for the prevention of coronary heart disease. While the biomolecular aspects involving G protein need further research, oleic acid levels in platelets may be a discriminating factor, together with linol...

Olive oil, high-oleic acid sunflower oil and CHD.

The low levels of CHD morbidity and mortality in Mediterranean regions is partly attributed to dietary factors. Olive oil is a key component of the traditional Mediterranean diet, therefore there has been intensive investigation to determine how olive oil mediates this effect. CHD has a very complex pathophysiology characterised by atherosclerosis, which is the result of aberrant lipoprotein me...

Developing intestine is injured during absorption of oleic acid but not its ethyl ester.

Although lipids are essential nutrients in the mammalian diet, we have shown that fatty acids are injurious to epithelial cells of developing piglet intestine during luminal perfusion. Furthermore, the intestine of young animals sustains greater injury than that of older piglets. In an effort to understand the mechanism for this developmental injury, we investigated whether changes in the chemi...

Dietary unsaturated fatty acids in type 2 diabetes: higher levels of postprandial lipoprotein on a linoleic acid-rich sunflower oil diet compared with an oleic acid-rich olive oil diet.

OBJECTIVE The present study was undertaken to examine the effect of a polyunsaturated fat diet compared with an isocaloric Mediterranean-style monounsaturated fat diet. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a randomized 2-week crossover study on either a high-polyunsaturated or a high-monounsaturated fat diet in 11 well-controlled diabetic men. Blood was taken fasting and for up to 8 h after a...

Gammalinolenic Acid, an Unsaturated Fatty