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Deb Kennedy, PhD - Culinary Medicine: A Focus on Fruit
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Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Dr. Deb for this engaging session where she takes fruit from the clinic to your plate. She delves into the heart of culinary medicine, focusing on the vital role fruits play in … Read More.
Question:
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Tell us about “vegetable “ fruits like olives, avocados, tomatoes and eggplant compared to regular vegetables and talk about the oil from these fruits compared to vegetable oil.?
— Nancy Calkins
Answer:
Well, yes, and those are all fruit. Exactly, they're fruit. But you know, when I did this work in the Food coach Academy, I had to make a decision early on and I decided I was gonna go what I considered culinary fruit. Um, not scientific fruit. So I treat avocado, tomatoes, eggplant, and olives like vegetables even though they're technically a fruit. So they are found in my vegetable course and in the vegetable chapter. And what we do know is that you can get really, really healthy oil. There's no healthier oil than extraversion olive oil. Um, it is full of really healthful fats called monounsaturated fats and so are avocados and avocado oil you can heat up to a high temperature. So that, that is what the, the oils are all about. Um, when I use oils and when we get to the fats and oils, chop will go into it in more depth. But you know, olive oil first pressed has a lot of nutrients in it, but I wouldn't use it. One, I'm like sauteing something that I've used the cheap stuff.
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